Jan 02 2009
“The Fountain” and Eastern Religion - Part 3: Glorification
The last thing I want to touch on with “The Fountain” has nothing to do with the fundamental ideas of eastern religions, but with how the views of these religions are depicted and conveyed. As a Christian it’s sometimes frustrating, but I can handle films depicting different religions. ”The Fountain” on the other hand, goes much further than just depicting eastern religions. It glorifies them. After I got done watching “The Fountain”, I wanted to be able to see death that way. It was just all so attractive on screen. In fact it looked like such a magical way to go that I lost sight of the fact that this wasn’t at all what I believed. The final scene in the film was breath-taking, fantastical, awe-inspiring, and completely wrong.
Once again, I’m not saying the film should be outlawed. I, for one, still enjoy it quite a bit. I’m just saying that the religious views of the film didn’t mix with my own at all, and it changed the way I felt about it. This is a good example of how film can sway peoples’ thoughts about things. From product placement to persuasion on the afterlife and eternity, film has a huge power.
