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منگل 12 دسمبر 2006Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The Fountain

On our anniversary, we went to the theater and watched The Fountain. It is not often we get a chance to watch a movie in the theater, so that was fun.

Was it an appropriate movie for celebrating our anniversary? Yes and no. The Fountain is about love, death, and eternal life. It has three parallel stories situated 500 years apart. The plot is about trying to escape death and find eternal life and then finally embracing death as being a sort of eternal life.

I liked it very much, though Amber was a bit depressed and didn’t think it an appropriate choice for the occasion. I rate it 8/10.

Tags: movie, review

Posted by Zack at December 12, 2006 1:31 PM in Movies

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Its visual effects were amazing!

Posted by: kianoush (116 comments) at December 12, 2006 10:50 PM

My vote goes with Baytee Ambrin

Posted by: Ajmal (312 comments) at December 13, 2006 9:02 AM

Happy anniversary! :)

Posted by: Baraka (4 comments) at December 13, 2006 2:15 PM

Happy Anniversary…may you have many many more years of happiness together. :-)

Posted by: wayfarer (121 comments) at December 14, 2006 10:54 AM

kianoush: Yeah, it was very visually stimulating.

Baraka, Wayfarer: Thanks. Our anniversary was Dec 1. I even wrote a post about it.

Posted by: Zack (1784 comments) at December 14, 2006 11:31 AM | PGP Sig

Happy anniversary!

“The Fountain’s” three storylines gushed forth, saturating the senses and minds of the audience. It bubbled and burbled with symbolism. Having dissolved multiple themes in his cinematic solute, the director proceeded to rain images upon the viewer. Scattered by his choice of a stream-of-consciousness narrative style, droplets of ideas trickled and then flowed into a mercurial pool mixing ideas from Christianity, Mayan mysticism and 20th Century popular culture. Consequently, lasting meaning never precipitated from the director’s visual geyser for me. I support the director’s general conclusion, but the background for the 26th Century seems akin to puddles in a pot-holed parking lot. Why, for example, did our near immortal protagonist think that flying the Tree of Life into a dying star was a good idea? Having been sprayed by The Fountain, I found the experience more wet than refreshing; I give it a 6 to 7 out of 10.

Posted by: Captain_Arrrgh (144 comments) at December 14, 2006 11:46 AM

You’ve been tagged.

Posted by: wayfarer (121 comments) at December 18, 2006 3:24 PM

Captain_Arrrgh: Thanks.

The 26th century guy was probably a bit difficult to understand. I see him as the culmination of the idea that in a way death has meaning and is a destination.

Wayfarer: Done.

Posted by: Zack (1784 comments) at December 20, 2006 3:39 PM | PGP Sig

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