the fountain movie review

act1
the queen of spain believes in LIFE and the church were not happy. they are branded heretics. a priest sided the queen and presented a mayan ancient secrecy .... the answer to eternity via the tree of life from genesis times. the loyal captian yearns for the queen promise, to be his eve, if he can get to the tree of life. he beat the mayans thru his faith but died when he misunderstood the meaning to eternity.

act2
tommy dedicated his LIFE, finding a cure to his wife's terminal illness. he experimented on an ape who had tumor, using the bark of the tree of life. but at the verge of success, his wife left him, and wanted her to completed her manuscript, a novel that the last chapter was incomplete. his dedication to his experiments to the cure, has made him forgot what love was, and he frequently left his marriage ring at the lab and leave her for late night experiments. on the contrary, he wife, izzi, was a keen and dug the mayan culture, whom that braved her, not fearing to die, for death is the beginning of birth.

act3
tommy consumes the bark of LIFE, lives in an orb and with the tree of life, heading towards the nebula of a dying star, still in quest to eternal life. in the he's constantly haunted by his wife, who wishes hime to "finish it", to complete the final chapter to her book. he tattoo himself with rings of marriage., all over his arms, to constantly him the mistake he made on earth, negelcting his wife's free will to die. when he completes the final chapter, he was released from eternal suffering of eternity.

beautifully filmed, with great performance by hugh jackman, a mind boggling film spinning the viewers from past to present to future to past and everywhere. there were parts i dont understand, that perhaps a dvd later will allow me to further dwell into this mysterious crafted movie. there was this interesting scene when hugh jackman was in deep thoughts, the movie went almost silent, but the audio came on when he was almost hit by a car. not a star movie, but it's a rare arty gem .... closed to the genres of butterfly effect, the lake house, vanilla sky, eteternal sunshine of a spotless mind, but with a different non conventional touch. one of the best love story of this age.

so what is the fountain? the novel written by tommy's wife? the fountain pen n fountian ink? of is ith the fountian of eternity?