Wired 14.11: The Outsider:
But The Fountain is a major departure from Aronofsky's previous work. Gone are the twitchy visuals and funky Brooklyn storefronts – "I burned out on my own schtick," he says. Here the director's canvas is stretched from the top of a Mayan pyramid to a modern neuroscience lab to the incandescent core of a nebula in deep space. And while π and Requiem were intimate art house fare, The Fountain – equal parts sci-fi, swashbuckling adventure, and medical thriller – tries to be three blockbusters in one.
Former X-Man Hugh Jackman and acclaimed British actress Rachel Weisz play time-tripping lovers whose devotion spans a millennium. In the 1500s, a conquistador named Tomas, played by Jackman, is dispatched to the Yucatan jungle by Queen Isabel (Weisz) on a desperate mission to find the tree of eternal life prophesied in Mayan myth. Cut. In the present day, Weisz is a writer named Izzi suffering from advanced brain cancer, and Tom is her neuroscientist husband obsessed with finding a cure. Cut. Five centuries later, Tom pilots a bubblelike biosphere toward a star that is about to explode. Tattooed and gaunt, he's haunted by memories of Izzi's deathbed request to help her finish writing a book called The Fountain.
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