The Fountain
So… Microcosms. Just a heads up, this WILL be a stream of consciousness.
So I think visually. Its just how Im wired, i guess. I even think visually when im doing math. Say im multiplying six by twelve. I will imagine six twelves in my head, then take two from each twelve and put those twos in a pile. then I add my remaining tens till i get sixty. This sixty stays where it is on my mental workbench as i add my sixes and get 12. then i put those together and 72. The strange thing is that i see all this play out in my head as if i was watching Schoolhouse Rock.
Ok back to the topic.
So im trying to visualize these three separate but sync-ed stories as a Microcosm (which, as i understand it is a smaller version of a larger world). However, the only image i can organize these stories into is a layered image of the same events occurring. Three similar events triple exposed on the same piece of film. Would i be wrong in entertaining the idea that the Microcosm at hand is the repetition of this mans personal history throughout time? I mean, despite the fact that we can clearly see the similarities between these three stories, Aronofsky goes out of his way (im not complaining) to mirror the imagery of the film. Am i looking at the wrong microcosm? The only way that the whole microcosm thing makes sense to me, with this film, is if i look at its timeline down a parallel axis, not at a perpendicular one, much in the fashion of the Tralfamadorians that Vonnegut created in Slaughterhouse 5.
After doing some research I leaned that most of the outer space effects were all practical, and filmed through a microscope that was pointed at a petri dish containing chemical reactions. I mean you’d be hard pressed to find a better way to portray a macro/microcosm.
