Today, I will save you two miserable hours

Last night, saw The Fountain (present from my dear friend, indeed Best Man, Adam). It is clever and incredibly elegant and has Ridley Scott or even Coen Brothers level production values but it is a horrifyingly miserable film (beaten into second place only by Jude for the most depressing film I've ever seen). Today I will save you the two miserable hours it takes to watch it by summarising its central message via a paraphrasing of an exchange between Rincewind and the Ponce da Qurim in Terry Pratchett's "Eric":

"I've been searching for the fountain of youth my entire life. Ever since I was a young man."
"In that case wouldn't it have been a bit more sensible to just, you know, get on with things?"

And that's The Fountain. Incidentally Adam Duritz of Counting Crows also got the central message of the film down to two lines in A Long December:

"I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass"

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[awrc]

One of the best things about The Fountain is that graphics were all non-CGI, done by some mad old buffer in his shed with chemicals (I paraphrase). Oh, and it might amuse you to know I was in Jude (an extra in various bits)!