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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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.

Read the story here.