Date: Friday, 5 March
Time: 14:30 to 16:30
Venue: HB 19-15 (Sociology)

The Fountain

The Fountain is a 2006 American film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The film comprises three storylines where Jackman and Weisz play different sets of characters: a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his queen, and a space traveler who hallucinates his lost love.

The storylines, interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs, reflect the themes of love and mortality. Director Darren Aronofsky emphasized that the storylines in their time periods and their respective convergences were open to interpretation. The director said of The Fountain's intricacy and underlying message, "[The film is] very much like a Rubik's cube, where you can solve it in several different ways, but ultimately there's only one solution at the end."

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[1] “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality

*The group holds weekly meetings where these topics are discussed and elaborated upon. Apart from the frequent smaller informal discussions by post-graduate students on topics of particular interest to them, Footnotes organises meetings in which more topical, controversial and hopefully fun discussions take place. Other events, such as the screening of philosophical films, are also organised by Footnotes. If you are a student of philosophy, or just have a general interest in philosophy, you are welcome to join our group and the discussions that it facilitates. Philosophy is first and foremost a discursive matter, so join us in bringing philosophy to life by participating in the discussions.