The film "Fountain": reviews. "Fountain" - film-parable directed by Darren Aronofsky

The film "Fountain", reviews of which are extremely controversial, unpredictable director Darren Aronofsky called the most real sci-fi gospel about Adam and Eve. Impressions of the audience are extremely diametrical. In the opinion of admirers, the picture is poetic and sad, but on the whole philosophical. But the opponents unanimously called the tape pretentious and too pathetic. Nevertheless, starting with musical accompaniment and colors and ending with acting, everything in it creates a whole, unified atmosphere that encourages reflection on eternal values. This philosophical parable clearly shows how beautiful and truly valuable modern cinema can be.

Lapidary description

The film "Fountain" (reviews of film critics confirm this) has several key elements. The conquistador (the bearded Hugh Jackman) of the Spanish queen, having left the sadist inquisitor alive, immediately sails to the Maya Indians in search of the last miracle tree left from the Garden of Eden. The oncologist (the same Jackman, but already shaved) is testing a chimpanzee of a certain substance from the Amazonian jungle, in a vain attempt to save his beautiful wife (Rachel Weiss) from the tumor , who composes the novel The Fountain. The 2006 film was not limited to this, there is also a sad astronaut (Jackman bald and pale) from the future, who flies in a transparent biosphere to a mysterious star nebula, there to connect with the beloved, whom the oncologist with a sick wife is scrutinized from his balcony in an improved telescope Pipe. That's all the lapidary and concrete description of the storyline of the film. It should be noted that for the whole period of cinema history and pohlesche connected, but still feel some confusion at how Hollywood producers risked investing in this zalahvatchina millions of dollars and release the finished project in the rental.

Six years is not a time limit

Creator Darren Aronofsky at the end of the dashing 90s earned a reputation as a true, all recognized cult director with the paintings "Requiem for a Dream" and "The Number of Pi". The film "Fountain", the description of which was given above, was "squeezed out" for about six years. In the beginning it was planned to invite Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt to the main roles, however, while the project was developing, the executors of the central characters were Rachel Weiss and Hugh Jackman. After his premiere at the Venice Festival, the film "Fountain", reviews of which have not bothered to leave only lazy and illiterate, split the film critics into ardent supporters and irreconcilable opponents. In any case, the picture could qualify for an Oscar nomination in the nomination "The Most Beautiful Film of the Year" (if it was awarded), because in it three times are desperately intertwined, and the plot covers the whole millennium.

Rare film and cult director

"Fountain" is difficult to understand, it is not all deciphered. Viewers ignorant, unprepared could be before watching a short synopsis, then they immediately, "on the move", will be included in the ongoing action, and they will be more interesting. Undoubtedly, there were movies and more difficult: "Stalker" or "Last year in Marienbad", but this is also far from simple. No wonder, because as a true creator, Darren Aronofsky dreamed of making a film of his life (although he still does not have a forty). The essence of the film "Fountain" is the most important thing in a person's life: death, the search for the meaning of life, eternal dreams of immortality, eternal love. It is clear that such a deep film was doomed to cause extreme reviews exclusively.

The main claim

Strange tendency in our society - it is worthwhile for any director to encroach on eternal or global topics, as he immediately becomes the object of ridicule. Yesterday he was worshiped, and even today they write the same thing: "Why does he go to the Kubriki and Castaneda?" And they do not forgive the genius of what is easily allowed to simple and superficial filmmakers-the lack of help. One of the main complaints to the picture is excessive seriousness and a complete lack of humor. It's strange, is it only about jokes and jokes about death and immortality? Individual reviews are real feuilletons with stupid and vulgar headlines, like "Let me rest the fountain" or pohlesche - "Shut the fountain". The film of 2006 should not be taken very speculatively, trying in vain to extract from the narrative the theory of being or seeking out only absurdities. It is better to indulge in some kind of meditation while watching a movie, in this case the pleasure of viewing is guaranteed. Moreover, in comparison with other films, the film "Fountain" (the reviews note this especially) is quite short.

Futuristic dream

Time, of course, everyone will judge, but nevertheless one innovative idea by the director is realized precisely. Aronofsky, creating the film as a futuristic dream ventured to go on an experiment. He replaced all digital special effects with macro special liquid substances that react with each other in the laboratory. They have given the picture a perfect enchanting atmosphere, putting the entire computer industry of the cinema under attack. There you have the Fountain. The meaning of the film from this innovation was not affected.

Fountain and Odyssey

With his mysterious prominences, Darren seemed to have accidentally created a long-awaited answer to a motionless Kubrick monolith (Odyssey 2001). It is worth noting that the structure of both paintings is identical. According to the plot of both films, the time of action tends to longed for eternity, Aronofsky has more modest, all within a millennium, but Kubrick has millions of years. Eternity in films is cut into three segments and in the climax the main character passes through outer space and time. And the super-intelligent Kubrikov superhumid tree corresponds to the movie "Fountain". Actors and their roles in the paintings do not lend comparison.

Confusing story

In principle, the catastrophic discrepancy between the reviews among film critics, up to now putting Aronofsky deuces and colas, and the audience of viewers indicates that both opposing camps have less common themes for dialogue. There remains one more category - people thinking, not stupefied by the modern mainstream and always ready to be bewitched by any "new unprecedented fantasy". They say: "Fountain" is the best film! "

Prospects

The film "Fountain" reviews are contradictory. The fact is that he is extremely vulnerable to individuals prone to ridicule, resonators, skeptics and other admirers of realism and common sense. He also does not have to taste people so clever that they are unable to admire the comic nonsense in which the tree flies to the stars, the main character falls into the nebula, the Tao is credited with the Maya, and everyone is covered with the Sephiroth book. But those viewers who are open to everything new, unusual, will necessarily see behind the picture weighty prospects, and who considers the film "not a fountain", most likely, will remain with the infamous "broken trough." The film "Fountain" is a complex, talented and sad, slightly crazy and extremely soulful movie about Eternal Love - the primary source of that very life Force. After all, this film is only technically, and in the rest it is a real picture, a work of art possessing an incommensurable spiritual potential.