“[The Fountain] was the film I wanted to make. Of all my movies, to the people that are fans, it’s almost like a cult religion, they get tattoos and I’m constantly getting long letters from people saying it helped them come to terms with something. So I think it works for a much smaller audience because ultimately the film is about coming to terms with your own death, which is not a big commercial idea for a lot of people… “
“The way we treat old people and people who are dying is just… with all our advances in science we’ve just become incredibly cruel with how the end of life is dealt with—especially in the States, it’s really messed up. And the beginning of life too—giving birth in America you have to do it in a hospital and there are very few options for natural childbirth. So Western science has taken control of the way we are born and the way we die, and there’s really no spirituality to it any more. This is why [The Fountain] wasn’t a commercial movie.”
“Filmmaking is an exercise in paranoia. When one writes, the goal to relate every scene to your main character, to your theme. That’s exactly how paranoid schizophrenics look at the world. They believe everything in the universe revolves around them. So in effect, all characters in a film would only be truly conscious if they were paranoid.”
– Darren Aronofsky
http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/6-reason...ed-masterpiece/
შადრევანი / The Fountain, 2006
