The Fountain

Tommy and Izzi are are both trying to come to terms with the fact that she has an inoperable brain tumor. Tommy, a research scientist, has been working day and night for a cure. He remembers hearing about a tree whose bark had amazing healing properties and decided to test it on monkies in the lab.

He is so obsessed, he doesn't even recognize that his time with Izzi is growing short. Izzi however has been making peace with her life and impending death, finding comfort and solace in examining how other cultures look at death.

She tells Tommy of a story of the Maya and their belief that the chief of the tribe, when he died, became a nebula in the sky.

Izzi then writes a story called The Fountain. It is the story of Spanish Queen Isabel. She is charged with being a heretic, and is in danger. Her Conquistador, Tomas, devotes himself to finding the tree of life for her. She has told him that to drink from it means eternal life, and that he returns, she will be his Eve.

Izzi is too ill to complete her story, so she wants Tommy to do it. He can't accept that she won't be able to do it herself, but finally, he finds the perfect ending.

I was a little frustrated in the beginning of the movie. The story kept flippiing back and forth from the Incan times, to this futuristic bubble, to present day with no explanation.

Eventually, the connections emerge, and when they do it is amazing.

Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz are perfectly cast, and set the screen on fire with their chemistry. The love between their characters is palable.

Hugh Jackman is dead sexy! Look at that face! Those intense dreamy light brown eyes!!

I want to have his babies! Move over Jude Law...