The Fountain

Are you going to write a thesis on it?

Seriously, I had no idea what the story was about. I kind of just turned it off halfway through.

I didn't really start feeling like I'd just wandered into a Timothy Leary experiment until he started eating the damn tree

I told you to rent Children of Men. And what did you do? Amateur.

yanno, there are better ways to ask for my #. it only costs $2.99 a minute anyway.

Love and Loss and tragic doomed beauty ...

I saw it in the theater but need to rent it and see it again. It was beautiful but sad. I believe that the Conquistador story was in her book, yes, but my idea was (again, it's been a while) that in her book she was remembering their past lives together (whether she knew it conciously or not) ... So the Aztec/Tree of Immortality was both real life and her book ... I think.

The Aztec MYTH was real in a modern scientific way, right?

For some reason the last part reminded me an R-rated (or at least PG13) version of The Little Prince. I think that the past was her book, the present is the reality and the future was... perhaps his subconcious?

Wasn't a Rush song patterned after the same story? or vice versa?
I liked it.

I had no CLUE. I think it was about love through the view of someone on drugs?

Rachel Weiz's character was writing the book in order to deal with her own death. She used it to come to terms with her own mortality. In the research and writing of her book she comes to believe that maybe the Aztecs are right.

Hugh Jackman's character had to learn to deal with the inevitability of his wife's death. He was able to when Rachel left him the last chapter of the novel to write.

The whole movie was about learning how to cope about the death of a loved one. At least that's what I got out of it. If it has some sort of deeper meaning than that I don't know.