Movie squares up to death
The Fountain explores the roles of science and spirituality in understanding life.
A movie out this week in the United States seeks to explore mankind's persistent struggle against death, through a triple-stranded plot in three different eras. In The Fountain, Hugh Jackman plays a sixteenth-century conquistador searching for the fountain of youth; a twenty-first-century neurologist who's researching brain tumors because his wife has one; and a beatific astronaut in the future, who flies through nebulas in a more spiritual pursuit of the meaning of life.
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One of my dreams is that at some time about our existence all the human beings be worry for being scientists, would be in fact a very interesting world. But always I wake up, because I believe that I will not be alive the sufficient to see it, unless it finds the fountain of youth. :). The problem is that most of the people are not interested to look for the meaning of the life, the reason of its existence. Personally I have kept awake many nights treating to imagine what will happen the day of my death; and certainly I hope that this single one is a step in our evolution. Many films have removed to shine in my these feelings, one of my preferred is “Contact”, with Judie Foster.
Posted by: Adalberto Peña Wilches | November 21, 2006 09:14 PM