Again, about ‘The Fountain’

Last weekend we watched the film ‘The Fountain’ for the fourth time. This time we had the director’s commentary, but we couldn’t help ourselves and ended up watching the finale again.
Our friends must already be bored by this subject. Only it’s hard to ignore the topic when there is no justice for this under-appreciated movie.

The commentary isn’t very explicit. Darren Aronofsky isn’t very generous in solving the puzzle, but he gives some clues that made us think and discuss the film once again. And once again, it was different, and deeper. Now I think I can explain why. It is a gem with many facets. It is a poem about love, life, and death. It is a masterpiece. It is constructed to blow your mind and senses. It has many levels – rational, philosophical, spiritual, mythical and psychological. Every detail, every line and every symbol counts, because it makes the connection between planes. They are like pixels on the screen, only they don’t form a two-dimensional image but rather a multi-dimensional one, and not in space but in meaning.

It is not by accident that this movie wasn’t well received by critics and some of the public. First, it breaks all the rules. They weren’t even able to find a category for it. Second, it’s not easy to make sense of all the details at first. I guess people just categorize it as ‘Beautiful but it doesn’t make sense’ and then go on with their lives. And third, the theatrical trailer was totally misleading in suggesting reincarnation. THERE IS NO REINCARNATION WHATSOEVER! IT’S A STORY ABOUT A BOOK! It is a story about a man who loves his wife, and the way he copes with her death. It’s a spiritual journey.

I just hope that one day, when people are ready, ‘The Fountain’ will be rediscovered and Aronofsky will be recognized for inventing a new kind of cinema. Again.

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We bought a new game named Magnetix. It's made of magnetic rods and metal balls. You can build all kind of structures and it glows in the dark. It is quite addictive.



A funny picture downtown Dublin.
Even the statues commute.



Brady's of Shankill The Library in Shankill


Foggy afternoon Sunny rays

Cleaning the spider webs...

Well, it's been a while since the last post. It's just that things are happening and before they get transformed into a blog entry, other things happen. I am going to catch up with some pictures.

We had an interesting trip to visit a tower on a nearby hill. After visiting all the ruins from the map (or not -- some were on private property), we discovered that the tower is actually a chimney from an old lead mine. It looks cool though, and the real adventure was driving through tunnels of vegetation not much bigger than the car. Luckily the only traffic was a lady on a horse. From the top of the hill we could see all of Dublin, but there is not much to see because Dublin is quite flat. There are some proposals to build higher structures, but they don't receive approval from the municipality.

Hoping we are the only ones on this road

Up, up, through yellow bushes

Majestic trees Finally, the chimney
Defying gravity ;-) Dublin from above