Topic: The Fountain

Imagination, imagery fuel ‘The Fountain’

By Christine Anne Piesyk | November 16, 2007 |

For weeks I’ve skirted past the appeal of the poster for The Fountain. “When I have a bit more time,” I told myself. What was I waiting for?

When I finally curled up in my handmade quilt, my new kitten cuddled in the crook of my knees, I found myself lulled by this film’s golden haze of artistic design, an often ethereal visual landscape sliding me, pulling me into each of the three worlds unfolding before me. The Fountain caught me, kept me, and set me up for encore viewings.

Hugh Jackman brings both a grit and a tenderness to the characters he plays. Yes, characters. Tomas, the Conquistador searching for the Mayan Tree of Life, Thomas, medical researcher with a dying wife, and Thomas 2, a metaphysical incarnation or dream traveling to a nebula in golden bubble with the dying Tree of Life. «Read the rest of this article»

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