Love Surpasses Death: A Review of “The Fountain” Movie
Love and the Quest For Immortality must have been the most overused themes in the history of movie-making. Anyone could have ticked off on his fingers and toes and his friends’ fingers and toes the number of love stories he has watched in his lifetime. But never love and death had been so beautifully and spiritually rendered in one movie as it has been in the movie, “The Fountain”.
What if you could live forever?
The Fountain is an odyssey of one man’s eternal struggle to save the woman he loves from inevitable death.
U.S. Congressman Claims No Belief In God
“Mythology is where all gods go to die, and it seems that Stark has secured a place in American History simply by admitting that a fresh grave should be dug for the God of Abraham – the jealous, genocidal, priggish, and self-contradictory tyrant of the Bible and Koran.”
And so says Sam Harris in his opinion article in the Los Angeles Times last March 15. He even went further by saying Stark is the first of the U.S. leaders (Pete Stark is a California Democrat) to “display a level of intellectual honesty befitting a consul of ancient Rome.”
I do congratulate Mr. Pete Stark for having the courage to come up and speak his stand about something as controversial and debatable as the existence of God. United States is not a wholly Christian country, but still, a big majority of its people believe in one God. It is expected that not so few Americans would be reacting negatively to Stark’s statement of disbelief in a divinity. It is no mean feat to stand up and claim your belief on one thing when everyone expect that such a belief is evil or unacceptable. But, at least, Mr. Stark has been true to himself and responsible enough to make his stand known in an issue where most politicians would rather content themselves to choosing the more popular sentiment for the sake of their political careers.
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300… the must see Movie of the Quarter!
I watched 300 with Jhann and our friends on the first day of its showing at Greenbelt 3. We were going for the 1030 showing but seats were full even before 8pm. We ended up with a later screening. We got 2nd row seat which isn’t bad for Greenbelt cinemas.
What If?
I saw her back in college when I was a freshman. When I first laid my eyes on her I was lovestruck. I never believed in love at first sight until after that moment. Seeing her wearing a radiant smile, I was dumbfounded. Stupid Cupid just probably came off from an archery tourney that time.
