You may have noticed, but: Stories that span multiple time levels and epochs are currently more popular than they have been for a long time. Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller breaks your heart spanning 3,000 years in his latest film and nothing works in the MCU anymore without the multiverse. Why only have one incarnation of a character when you can tell different variants of the protagonist and have them meet at some point?
If also Loki, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Co. but a bit too one-dimensional and easy to understand we have the ultimate streaming tip for you. And even with a Marvel star!
Hugh Jackman traveled through his own multiverse long before Marvel did
Roughly speaking, The Fountain is about the question of eternal life and love in the face of life that is far too short. Hugh Jackman plays Tomás Verde or Tom Creo or Tommy, der in three different times and as three different variants of essentially the same person tries to save the life of his wife Isabel or Izzi (Rachel Weisz) and defeat death itself.
Here is the trailer for the millennial love story Three Thousand Years of Longing:
Three Thousand Years Of Longing – Trailer (English) HD
For this he fights as a conquistador in the 16th century on the search for the tree of life against Maya, searches as a doctor in South America in the 2000s for a tree that is said to be able to cure cancer, and travels through space and time 500 years later, because he believes he has finally found the antidote to death. The three stories are interwoven through a book. What really happens and what is fiction blurs – similar to Tarsem Singh’s similarly unusual film The Fall.
The Fountain on Disney+ tells a sci-fi love story without classic CGI
Darren Aronofsky is responsible for the tragic romance that spans a millennium. The cult director already proved before The Fountain with Pi and Requiem for a Dream that he has an eye for extraordinary visual means. In The Fountain, Aronofsky used one, even then unusual move for a sci-fi story: He deliberately avoided standard CGI and instead had ultra-close images of chemical substances made in a Petri dish.
The result is a film that is unwieldy and complex as usual for the director, but also visually very special, which has evoked very different reactions not only from critics but also from the audience since its release in 2006. So the perfect film for all those who Fancy a cinematic challenge – and finally want to see a coherent story across multiple levels of time and space that doesn’t have the Marvel logo emblazoned on it.
You can stream The Fountain on Disney+ by subscription* or buy it on Blu-ray and DVD on Amazon. *
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