death, immortality

Jean 2022-01-25 08:05:55

What exactly is death? What about eternity?
An obscure film full of metaphors and symbols.
From beginning to end, three stories are interspersed - the Spanish conquistadors, the pharmacological scientists, and the spacewalkers.
In the face of death and immortality, he is making his own choices and thinking.
Not wanting to let his lover die, he made his own choice.
Death is a disease, it's like any other. And there's a cure. A cure - and I will find it.
God's will , the antidote was developed the moment brain cancer took his wife's life.
True love makes him regret, makes him helpless, and makes him miserable.
He wants to change the fate of death and pursue eternal life.
He won, but he can't change the past, and his lover is still in the memory. . .
Heavy snow, lover, walk, it
's the first snow, we always...
I'm sorry. I am
choosing, let him give up spending the last time with his wife, and all that is left are memories.
Did he win? Eternal life does not confer happiness, and cherished people exist only in memory.
He chose to give up eternal life.
Death as an act of creation
In the lover, he found the true meaning of life.
Together, we'll live for ever
Who is saving whom?
The novel in the hands of the wife has no end. Chapter 12 is waiting for him to finish.
The story of that Spanish conquistador awaits him.
death and life.
After realizing the true meaning, he finished the novel.
Sadness and optimism, helplessness and belief, fantasy and reality, life and death, come together at this moment. . .
The knight finally found the tree of life and madly sucked its lotion.
However, the legendary immortality did not come, but turned into more life-another form of immortality.

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Extended Reading

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.