The Fountain, again

So as my readers (if I have such a thing) may know, I was very impressed by Darren Aronofsky's new film, the Fountain. Although it has been billed as a sci-fi love story which spans the ages, the film is really nothing of the sort. It is visually beautiful, inovative, non-linear, poetic, and features a soundtrack that will haunt the viewer, and is likely the best of the year. The film is divided into three, and plays with imagery, metaphor, symbols, and circles. Rachel Weiss plays two characters, Queen Isabella, and Izzie; one a Queen who seeks eternal youth, the other a present-day writer, who has accepted death as necessary to life. "Death as an act of creation....death is the road to awe." Anyway, the film is stunning and sends a much needed message to our modern culture obsessed with youth, scared of death, and intent on merely surviving instead of living. It is ironic that near death experiences are the closest many people will come to really experiencing living.

Here is a link to some excellent artwork that Aronofsky had commissioned by a wide array of artists.

NYT Page, Artwork