Day 18 - A movie that you wish more people would’ve seen

The Fountain, 2006 - Directed by Darren Aronofsky

Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men (Hugh Jackman) in pursuit of eternity with their love (Rachel Weisz). A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

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So, hardly anyone I know has seen this movie, and those who have seen it don’t like it because it’s “too confusing.”  I wish more people would see it, though.  Above anything else it’s beautiful to watch, and it definitely made me cry.