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The Source of Life Power

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Year: 2006 Country: U.S. Gender: Drama / Science Fiction Score: 09/10
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Patrick Thomas, Donna Murphy and Mark Margolis

"The Fountain of Life "is a science fiction story which deals with the odyssey of a man (Hugh Jackman) and his struggle through time to save his beloved wife (Rachel Weisz). Since the sixteenth century Spain to the deep space of the future XXVI century, the hero of this film tries to find the tree of life, the legendary entity that grants eternal life to those who drink its sap, to try to save the life of your wife suffering from cancer. Like a painting or sculpture, "Fountain of Life" does not seek to tell a conventional story, but to suggest ideas and emotions to be interpreted by the viewer. Perhaps these ideas are not particularly innovative or relevant, but at least have to appreciate the amazing direction and skillful Aronofsky management of film technique, through which a coherent story that does not necessarily understand on an intellectual level, but in an emotional. In other words: Are we seeing the same people over 1000 years? I have my theories, but I'd rather keep it to myself, because no logical explanations are needed to appreciate it. Maybe everything is a metaphor for the process of accepting the death of a loved one might be a sci-fi saga that culminates in a distant star, perhaps it is just a fable that shows us that immortality is to live forever, but to integrate the natural process of renewal that applies to all living beings.

I think Darren Aronofsky at risk of becoming a victim of its own success. The excellent critical reception of his previous films " PI" (1998) and "Requiem for a Dream " (2000) established a standard of dramatic narrative intensity and fervor that his new proposal (romantic, in addition to all) fails achieve. Anyway, I think "The Fountain of Life" is a clear sign of Aronofsky's talent as a director, but his skills as a writer have fallen short. Or maybe the fault is to blame for the Hollywood studios that myopic years ago canceled the production of the tape, when was a huge project that went to star Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Perhaps a larger budget and more polished production would have been the epic visual spectacle that would support the drama of the protagonists. I guess we'll never know. There are many reasons why "The Fountain of Life" has caused and will cause reactions of all kinds (and this includes also the indifference, of course). Aside "games" more or less questionable visual basically the center of the "controversy", inescapable, lies in his treatment of the film to death, the end of life. Aronofsky said the producers had described his script as "poem about death." Indeed, that would be a good description of the intentions of the film, very different from what we see today, and for years, which, at least for a server, it was a great news. As noted by the director to the media, the story of the film, focusing on death, making references to many sites, especially the different religions, have much concern for this vital fact.

Here is another great element of controversy in "The Fountain of Life." And it is to touch religious matters, or at least close to them, bears, unfortunately, instant lifting of the same group of fans forever. As it is something that is there and can not be avoided, for now, it's best to turn a deaf ear on this issue. The protagonists of "The Fountain of Life" are Hugh Jackman, probably his best work done here so far, and Rachel Weisz appears particularly charming. But Jackman is who bears the weight of the film, playing a character who is three at once, at different times or worlds or realities, and make every effort to find the fountain of life to save Weisz, in its different aspects (or realities) is particularly striking and impressive part of Jackman as a soldier settler, Native Americans face. Aronofsky said the actor was very involved in the project and it shows. Jackman is superb, at a level similar to that offered us the fascinating " El Gran Truco" (2006). Especially inspired by the end of the film, Jackman up a character who is three and what actually more interesting, making a great job. Weisz less actively involved, but their presence does not stop beating around the film, as the engine that drives the characters in Jackman, and his work is just remarkable. Weisz, as I said, is radiant in the film, which must have some connection with that since the shooting, the couple is Aronofsky.

Besides the two stars in the film we see people like Ellen Burstyn (who was amazing in "Requiem for a Dream"), Sean Patrick Thomas and Donna Murphy, but their characters have little relevance, focusing all history in the two main characters and above all, as I said, in the roles of Jackman. It is "The Power of Life" a movie easy view or summarized, as is almost any shady away from shopping and of entertainment. Nor, in the background (and I fear that despite the efforts of its director), is a film to reflect, I suspect that this area contains considerably less it might seem. But it is a movie to go with it, by its powerful visual device that melts in the same muted palette, and with one foot in mystery, a recreation of a room in the Alhambra, a research laboratory as a temple dark save the mysteries, the beauty of Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman stubborn determination by the restlessness of his visual creations (attention to the scene by the tree, in Guatemala), this tale about how love is faced with death. Given this, does it matter that at times it really reminded Jackman a Buddha cheap all a hundred, or the need for an ultimate sense to destroy the magic work moments such as the Mayan temple? There now enters the final decision of the beholder, I think, as you can read here, for whom this signature, no, I do not mean that I wish the best of Darren would not have done better in ahorrárnoslo and find another solution. But there is courage, beauty, success and failure of an unusual proposal.

On the tape is detached eternal life time, fleeing their meaning and flourishes in a dying nebula. Death is an act of creation, and the very meaning of life lies not in our time living, but in time I really meant to be happy and not looking for that happiness. So this tape Aronofsky does not speak of being immortal, but in support of its opposite or differential of this utopia, this science-fiction. ''The Fountain of Life''is not wealthy or pretentious as well as we wanted to see, it's all pretentious I could be a love story between a man and a woman. However, neither is it a story either, but one that shows the true essence of what love means that we directly confront the problem of shortage of time to which we and our existential error, not knowing what to do with him. The images of this masterpiece is so powerful (in their conception as well as in its abstraction, where aesthetic and philosophical, or simply as a celebration of life) that we stand before a being with his own life that makes the miracle of cinema: conveying to the next level above the language, nailed like a dart in the hypothalamus and extended like a sweet poison through the soul. A soul that lives in a glass liquid traveling hundreds of miles per hour soaring through the universe to "Xibalba", where the tree of life will be reborn, or where they finally realize that together''forever'' is not an abstraction only sprout from the mouth of a loving heart, because its meaning transcends the mortal essence of the flesh, beyond the food timber of life, hair standing on end at the touch of loving lips, footprints in the mud surrounding the presence of a living tree with a heart withering in pain, the conquest of New Spain in search of a utopia that is not beyond within ourselves .

"The Fountain of Life" is pure theater, visual power is as dazzling and overwhelming that resists any kind of rational analysis. Aronofsky has transcended the cinema and has ventured into terrain more typical of poetry and art of the subconscious. And yet, how powerful imagery Aronofsky holds us more than us away, we love and, above all, lift its best moments in the history of the outstanding contemporary love Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in the mesmerizing visual success of this celestial sphere immersed in a nebula within the tree and a futuristic interior Jackman , in the superb soundtrack of a Clint Mansell signing his best score for Aronofsky , even higher than its already excellent performance in "Requiem for a Dream," a musical construction that does not hesitate to use the repetition of shots and sequences like to create an order within it, a cadence that ends up impregnating but at some point, some conceptual visual noise or interfere with our reception of the work. In summary, "The Fountain of Life" is an extraordinary fantasy adventure about life and death, offering some of the most inspired moments that have been in recent years on a movie screen. Small wonder that, unfortunately, has not been all that Aronofsky wanted to tell. May have to be done with the comic. Personally, I would put this film at the same level as the famous "Requiem for a Dream." And careful, age is not an easy job, it is not commercial, and requires the viewer to surrender completely. Taken into account.

"A beautiful poem to the death "