Movie: The Fountain (2006)
- Director: Darren Aronofsky
- Release Date: 22 November 2006 (USA)
- Run Time: 96 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi
- MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of violent action, some sensuality and language. (edited for re-rating; originally R)
Tagline: What If You Could Live Forever?
Trivia: The group of stars that appear at movie is the Orion constellation, and the Xibalba Nebula is knew in astronomy jargon as Messier 42, M42, NGC 1976 or Orion Nebula, located at 1270 light-years approximately from the Earth.
Goofs: Errors in geography: The “Xibalba Nebula” in the movie is the Orion Nebula – which is not gold and does not contain dying stars, unlike in the movie. It is largely pink (from ionized hydrogen gas) and is a stellar nursery where young stars are forming. The first stars to die there will be massive and will not create nebulae first (they will supernova instead).
“Three stories – one each from the past, present, and future – about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>”
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