If you like scores, then you must dig out The Fountain. I picked this score up a few months after seeing the movie, which was, and still is, incredible. I use it for meditation or anytime I need to unwind my mind. I’d post “Death is the road to awe” but sadly it is an itunes protected file. Trust me on this one.
March 31, 2008
Scores
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I have to say I loved the music but the movie really floored me….in the not so good way. Maybe even as educated as I am, I’m not as much of a highly functioning being as I once thought.
Just maybe.
-la petite
Comment by la petite — March 31, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
It left me feeling stupid the first time I saw it, I admit. The second, now the third time seeing it just clarified the story line. It was obscure enough as to not give direction, to give substance, and to lack definition all at once. 3 Story lines, one main purpose - to learn to stop fighting death and embrace it instead as rebirth.
Even if it isn’t your thing, the score was amazing and kept it the story moving with even the most subtle of music.
Comment by Daemon — April 1, 2008 @ 6:59 am
Oh … The Fountain was so sad. I loved it, but it was sad. Who hasn’t known pain and loss? Who hasn’t fought it with every fiber of their being? I loved that of all things, all he was able to alter was the recovery of his wedding ring. In the end, that’s really all we have, when kneeling beside a grave: the symbols that represent an untouchable past.
Comment by Beth — April 1, 2008 @ 8:31 am
I have only watched The Fountain once. It is one of those films that you have to not look at directly, else you would never see it. You’d have to ‘feel’ it, not ’see’ it. Like those stereographic pictures?
Perhaps a meditative film - an instruction on ‘how’ to ‘let go’. Let go of death, of love, of ego. Like that yoga-posture of giving with one hand in order to receive with the other.
An exquiste film.
Sara
ps- Good scores, in my opinion: The Wonderland, The Piano, The Mission, Requiem for a Dream and the remix.
Comment by saramichael — April 6, 2008 @ 4:23 am
Might I suggest an exquisite film- screen adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s ‘Like water for [hot] chocolate’. It holds features close to my heart. I’d say nothing more and leave the rest to the reader/viewer.
Comment by saramichael — April 25, 2008 @ 1:09 am