Those who fear death are always the living

Maggie 2022-04-19 09:01:33

When I first saw this movie, it was a bit cloudy, but slowly I understood...

In fact, the real story is that the female protagonist has brain cancer and she will die soon. The male protagonist does not accept this reality and wants to find a cure for his wife.

The female protagonist has repeatedly said "I'm not afraid" to the male protagonist. In fact, in my opinion, the male protagonist has always been afraid of death, which is actually very moving and realistic. Compared with the dead, the living are the most painful and the most difficult to accept death.

There are various cosplay-like plots interspersed in the middle, some of which are plots in the heroine's novel. The heroine once told the hero that if you bury the dead under a tree, the dead will be with the living, and the dead will turn into flowers. The bald male protagonist in the bubble is saying the same thing as the tree of life, when the nebula dies, the tree will bloom.

Every time I take a close-up of the tree, the male protagonist stretches his hand to the bark, and there are some hair-like fluff on the bark. In fact, think of this scene as when the male protagonist kisses the female protagonist's neck and forehead, the camera is the same as the close-up of the female protagonist. , The Tree of Life is the incarnation of the heroine. When the heroine in reality dies, the Tree of Life also dies.

There are still many correspondences between imagination and reality. The female protagonist gave the male protagonist a gift on the hospital bed, which contained pens and ink, but in the imagination, the bald male protagonist used a pen to tattoo on his arm. The dying nebula that the male and female protagonists saw outside the window, Xi Baba, imagined where the bubbles would go.

The imaginary bubble world is a bit like one flower, one world, one leaf and one bodhi. The male protagonist's one is probably one tree and one world.

When other people found out that the medicine that the male protagonist accidentally discovered can not only make the monkey rejuvenate, but also make the tumor smaller, and the female protagonist also died... In fact, the female protagonist has longed for death, in her book and she told the male protagonist This can be felt in the words.

Finally, when the male protagonist was no longer afraid of death, the female protagonist told him "together we'll live forever" in his fantasy. I see a little religious feeling at the end,

This movie always reminds me of "Falling". Falling in is also a cross between real and imagined stories, all kinds of imaginative imaginations, but the colors of falling in are brighter, and the imagination is more fairy-tale-like. The movie is more inclined to the science fiction of the starry universe.

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The Fountain quotes

  • Izzi: I asked Lilly... if I could be buried at her farm.

    Tom Creo: No, stop it!

    [he walks away, then turns back]

    Tom Creo: I want you to be with me.

    Izzi: I am with you, look! I'll always be with you. I promise.

    [pause]

    Izzi: Will you stay with me tonight?

    Tom Creo: Yeah... I'll stay.

    [they hug]

    Tom Creo: I'll stay.

  • Tom Creo: Death is a disease, it's like any other. And there's a cure. A cure - and I will find it.