Thoughts on 'The Fountain' (director, Darren Aronofsky; 2006).
Thoughts on 'The Fountain' (directed by Darren Aronofsky, 2006). 'Questions'. Does the character ' Tom Creo ', a doctor who had been unable to cure his wife's ('Izzi's') brain tumour, use an extract from the 'Tree of Life' to outlast humanity; and, as ' Tommy ', travel through space-time to 'Xibalba', a dying star - a place where Izzi had told him souls are united and reborn? And is he the reincarnation of a dead Spanish explorer, who failed in his quest to discover the source of life and save his queen? Illustration 1: Tomas Verde (top), Tom Creo (bottom-left) and Tommy (bottom-right) - actor, Hugh Jackman. By opening out a 'story-within-a-story' - Tom's attempt to 'finish it' (Izzi's incomplete book, 'The Fountain', about a 16th c. A.D. conquistador) - into three parallel tales, the film maintains an entirely allusive narrative texture. Mayan myth and Catho