Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/15/2007
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Requiem for a Dream director
Darren Aronofsky switches gears from drug-induced urban malaise to abstract
science fiction with this time-tripping symbolic tale of a man's thousand-year quest to save the woman he loves. Moving between representational stories and images, this meditation on life and death focuses on the concept of the mythical Tree of Life that is said to bestow immortality to all who drink of its sap. In one of the film's allegorical timelines, a 16th century Spanish conquistador played by
Hugh Jackman sets out to find the tree in order to save his queen (
Rachel Weisz) from the Inquisition. Another conceptual story finds
Jackman centuries later, struggling with mortality as a modern-day scientist desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife,
Izzi. The third and most abstract concept finds
Jackman as a different incarnation of the same character-idea, this time questing for eternal life within the confines of a floating sphere transporting the aged Tree of Life through the depths of space. Still more
avant-garde than his breakthrough film
Pi,
The Fountain finds
Aronofsky almost completely abandoning conventional story structure in favor of something more cinematically abstract. Though the film was originally slapped with an R by the MPAA,
Aronofsky & co. re-edited it to conform to a PG-13 rating.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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