The Fountain was a break for Aronofsky from the cold, cerebral work he had produced before in Requiem for a Dream and Pi. While science-fiction doesn’t typically lend itself to heart-wrenched emotion, The Fountain more than delivers on that front. The Fountain never went on to be the high-grossing star-vehicle Warner Bros. intended, but, by shedding cheap artifice, it resonates with viewers. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/fountain/
shareAnother 10th year retrospective, with quite a different perspective which I have not read/heard in all the discussions about the movie, this time from COLLIDER --
http://collider.com/the-fountain-explained/#image
Same conclusion as I get from the movie but I feel how he got there is a bit off. We can get the same story of accepting death through there being a separate year on 2500.
shareAnd yet another retrospective --
http://www.firstshowing.net/2016/the-truth-aronofskys-the-fountain-is-an-underrated-masterpiece/
There is so much appreciation and love for this work!
ten years - time to admit it will never be considered a classic
shareIts a cult film, not a "classic."
The movie is too odd and unique to be a "classic." The subject matter is too eccentric for it to be mainstream. Personally I enjoyed it, though I'll admit I don't "get it."
nowadays, whenever a movie flops, people say "oh that just means its a cult film", its just a way to deny that it failed and the public hated it
shareWell there are flops and then there are cult films.
Cult films are distinguished, at least from how I've seen them defined in that they tend to be made by auteur directors and usually are very abstract and/or have strange artistic messages about society, politics, or whatever.
But to each their own.
no, cult films were distinguished by their audience, the audience was the "cult", they were films you could only see at festivals or special screenings, and the fact that people would show up proved there was a cult following, now you can easily get any obscure film you want, so there's no way to tell if something has cult audience
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