The Fountain

Wow, that was one weird movie. I honestly had no idea what the hell was going on for 90% of the movie.

Plot:

I have no fucking idea. The movie starts off with three men in a jungle somewhere. They are approaching a giant pyramid when they get ambushed by a bunch of crazy natives who kill two of them. Instead of killing the main one however they carry him past them and to the pyramid which he proceeds to climb, following some monk he saw. He gets to the top and the monk stabs him, cuts his head off with a flaming sword.

Oh, and then the man wakes up and it turns out he's a floating bald monk in giant floating globe that houses a giant tree flying around in space somewhere.

....yea.

From what I could tell this man was three people, at the same time, in different times. He was a warrior sometime in the past serving the queen of Spain who went on the mission to find the tree of life, a tree that grants immortality to whoever drinks its sap. He was also someone from the present (our time) who tested drugs on monkeys with tumors to try and find a cure for cancer because his wife was dying from it. Not he was also someone from...the future? I think? The floating space monk with the tree which turns out to be the tree of life.

:idk the present version uses some extract from a tree they found somewhere on one of the monkeys and it works, the tumor seems to shrink. This however is discovered minutes before his wife dies and it's too late. In the future or wherever the fuck the space monk is the tree also dies at the same time, assumed to be his wife. This space monk also has random...flash backs? Of the present one and his wife. Now the past version finds the tree and gets killed by the priest in the pyramid, or does he?

No. At the last second before the flaming sword hits him he actually turns into the future space monk and is floating in front of the priest, who in turns believes he is "the first father" (the one who created the planet by sacrificing himself) so he kneels before him and presents his neck. The future monk turns back into the past warrior who slits the priests throat and proceeds on, finding the tree.

He was cut by the priest, so he cuts the tree and rubs the sap on his wound which heals completely. He then starts drinking as much sap as he can. But all is not good, a plant sprouts from his stomach where his wound was. He starts yanking it out but it keeps growing and growing and soon his body is consumed by roots and he becomes a tree. Meanwhile the present version is at his wifes funeral, and drops a plant thing into the grave. Oh and the future monk is crying because the tree died but he continued to float through space into a dying star.

Yea, that's the movie.

Acting:

Good...I guess? The characters were convincing with what they were, but it was hard to focus on the acting when you really have no idea what the fuck is going on.

Theme:

I can't even begin to guess at what the theme of the movie was. No matter how much time passes the same events will occur in different forms? You can't reach immortality? Space monks are bad ass motherfuckers that can time travel? I have no idea.

Overall:

I have to give it a 4/10 not because it was an especially bad movie I just have no idea what the fuck was going on. Maybe sometime when I can concentrate better I'll watch it again but it wasn't really that interesting, the plot was hard to follow, and it there was really no stand out features.

-Kartoon