I'm very excited that next week "The Fountain" comes to DVD. This movie is Darren Aronofsky's answer to the "Matrix". He felt that that movie had completely redefined the sci-fi film and this is his forray into that brave new world. I would say it's another masterpiece much like his "reqieum for a dream", a dark poetic piece about addiction(s). It is beautiful, emotionally charged, intelligent and even spiritual movie. It's much like one of the masters paintings that unfolds like a lotus flower over two delightful hours.
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett left this production as it crumbled in Australia. They went on to join the blockbuster "Babel", a movie that is hard for me to watch. It still sits on my coffee table in it's Netflix envelope. Aronofsky on the otherhand downscaled his production, rejoined his reqieum and pi production team and picked up his wife Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman on the cheap(before they both blew up as movie stars) and opted for organic special effects over digtal. The combination is a winner. It's funny how adversity can lead us to were we really need to be in life. This movie is really special(I saw it twice the first weekend), it would be hard to be any different than the way it came out.
It's released on Tuesday. Watch it.You'll enjoy it.
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