The Fountain Sparknotes

[pic] I consider The Fountain an epic because first, it has gods: Mayan and Christian; it’s got a hero, Hugh Jackman, other wise known as; Tommy, and the quested tree of life from the Garden of Eden. It is a life-altering journey also because Tommy finally sees all of the things in life that he has done wrong, like choosing work over his wife, and he also changes the way he treats people. This movie makes the way people think change because they can compare their cultures from today’s culture to that of the medieval days and finally how people could be living in the future. Three parallel stories: about love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of existence, as told through The Odyssey taken on by one man in his thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. Tommy’s epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain, where, as conquistador Tomas Creo, he commences his search for the “Tree of Life,” the legendary entity believed to grant eternal life to those who drink of its sap. As modern-day
But then the movie cuts to a scene of Izzy being in the hospital and she dies before Tommy can save her. At the funeral Tommy states: “death is a disease like any other, and there is a cure and I will find it,” showing his fear/ disgust of death. Three stories; one each from the past, present, and future; about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. 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