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Post by Capo on Apr 7, 2007 13:57:50 GMT
The Fountain Darren Aronofsky 2006 USA A doctor researching a cure for his wife's tumor reads the manuscript of her unfinished novel and vows to break through with a cure for Death itself. Aronofsky's films have no ebb and flow or "give and take"; instead, their narratives seem to be a relentless, constant flow of sustained energy, which means they are ambitious in concept, difficult in production, financially risky and challenging to watch. The Fountain, as it turns out, also happens to be emotionally devastating, due to an accumulation of several different things under the direction of a talented filmmaker - Hugh Jackman's performance, Clint Mansell's score, and the editing across several interrelated fictions. These fictions do not exposit themselves or take time to establish their place in the overall narrative of the film, so that it unfolds not so much like a Lynchian puzzle but an exciting texture of shot-to-shot cutting more akin to Julio Medem, with thematic similarities to Cronenberg.
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Post by RNL on Apr 20, 2007 15:16:38 GMT
What thematic similarities to Cronenberg did you see?
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Post by Capo on Apr 20, 2007 15:18:50 GMT
The tragedy of mortality.
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Post by RNL on Apr 20, 2007 15:37:23 GMT
Oh, yeah, I suppose. I thought you meant something more specific. I can see a kind of similarity to The Fly, but the attitudes with which the two films treat that 'tragedy' are almost oppositional. In The Fountain death itself is apparently a 'disease' that can and should be cured, whereas in The Fly is an absolute certitude.
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Post by Capo on Apr 20, 2007 17:41:38 GMT
Oh, although it is by no means an adequate substitute for DVD, if you want to tease yourself with various sounds and images of the film, or simply watch it, there's a stream of it here.
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