The Fountain

Death. The desire for immortality, to conquer death. Death is a disease, and I will find the cure. The Tree of Life, the key to immortality?

Izzi is dying. Cancer. Her book, The Fountain, lies unfinished, a twelfth chapter unwritten. It is time for Tommy, her husband, to read it. In the story, Queen Isabel of Spain sends conquistador Tomas to find the tree that is said to grant eternal life.

The twelfth chapter will be written among the stars, in the heart of the Xibalba Nebula, itself the name of the Mayan underworld, the Place of Phantoms ruled by the gods of death.

“Goodbye, Izzi.”

Rebirth. The explosion of the human into the infinite, the joining of the mortal soul with the cosmos, the infinite cycle of death and renewal.

Love is in the infinite.

“Death is the road to awe.”


The Fountain

Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Written by Darren Aronofsky, based on a story by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel

Starring:
Hugh Jackman....Tomas/Tommy/Tom Creo
Rachel Weisz....Isabel/Izzi Creo
Ellen Burstyn....Dr. Lillian Guzetti
Mark Margolis....Father Avila
Stephen McHattie....Grand Inquisitor Silecio
Fernando Hernandez....Lord of Xibalba