Beyond Death
“The Fountain” is a movie centered around the imaginary spring of the Fountain of Youth. The Fountain of Youth is a mythical fountain which according to legend had the power of renewing youth (Knowles, Elizabeth). It was Izzi’s dream for Tommy to find the Fountain of Youth so she could be healed. People believed that the water would make old people young and would heal all kinds of sickness. The movie continually dwells on how to escape the pain of death. The ring is a symbol of a beginning without end. The “annual ring” is any of the concentric rings seen in cross sections of the stems of most trees and shrubs: each ring is a layer of wood that normally is a year’s growth (“annual ring“). however, this does not guarantee the tree will live forever. Tom tattooed rings on his arm to represent years of life.
The amazing use of the scripture reveals how important the Tree of Life is to the movie. When it started, “the Lord God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, and placed a flaming sword to protect the Tree of Life - Gen 3:24”, is only the beginning of life (The Fountain). But it takes time to accept that death leads to life - that “death is the road to awe” - and the lead character lives a long, long life fighting against it, till in the end he accepts death, only to be reborn(The Fountain).
“The Fountain” is a movie about the past, present and future of a person’s life. It is patterned after the God head which represents the Father which is the past, the Son which is the present and the Holy Spirit which is the future. The movie also, explores the idea of love with influence from the Tree of Life and mortality which is influenced by the Fountain of Youth. It changes a person’s mind from fearing de...
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...e after death. Tomas and Izzi finally came to the conclusion that they would live forever together someday.
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The poem talks about the old tree and relates it to an aged man. "Or the trenched features of an
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