A truly beautiful film. Features several time-periods and an emotional, thought provoking story. Mixes in elements from myths and legends with sci-fi and traditional drama.

This is a film about acceptance of death. The general tone of this film is earthy, dreamy, and calm. All visuals are carefully composed and very pleasant to the eyes, because Aronofsky is the kind of director who knows his lenses. The music, scored by Aronofsky's long time collaborator Clint Mansell, is captivating and inspiring. Aronofsky's script is experimental and a bit coarse, but full of strong details. The characters are a bit one-dimensional, but skilled actors give them sufficient depth. The film features one simple main narrative, and two parallel fantasy narratives (with lots of elaborate fantasy imagery). The main narrative takes place in the present. The fantasy narratives take place in the past and in the future respectively. The fantasy narratives are not realistic or logical, nor are they supposed to be. Unfortunately this is confusing, and some viewers seem to believe that something super complex is happening and that they need to understand it like in one of those "Inception"-type movies. But that is wrong. The fantasy narratives are more like dream sequences, used to express stuff about the main narrative in a more powerful, visual language which is more accessible to the unconscious. The narration of the fantasy narratives is fast paced, which prevents boredom, but the drawback of this is that there is not much time to build mood. Therefore the mood building seems a little clumsy at times, and some moments which are intended to produce sadness or goosebumps might make you chuckle instead, or you'll find them pretentious. But the artist's intention is always clear and I was willing to stay with Aronofsky's vision and take all scenes serious in order to enjoy the film. This film is definitely a break from the boring Hollywood conveyor belt. It bombed at the box office which suggests that most people dislike it. But some people will love it, and so do I.

Death is a part of life. Most of us have lost a loved one, fewer have lost someone at the center of our universe, but that day is coming. Tommy struggles to accept death. As a man of science, he can not accept it. He is trapped between a world of solutions and a profound love that defies explanation. He does not accept it, perhaps for many years, then finally he listens to the words of his late love. Perhaps the reason he can not accept it is that he gave up the precious few moments he had left to his ill fated attempt to save her from the inevitable. Often we give up those moments with our loved ones. Some of us because of work, sometimes because we forget what those people really mean to us. I need this reminder about once a year, to remember how important my wife is to me, my children. They are my life and soul. Life is fragile, and death puts life in the proper perspective. Those that say Hugh Jackman overacted this are wrong. Grieving looks just like this. I highly doubt Brad Pitt could have done this. Cinematography and story are amazing. It takes watching the movie a few times just to get the basic message, a few more to figure out if the future part even happened. This movie is one of the greatest achievements of modern movie making art in my opinion, please do yourself a favor and own it.

All Spoilers, just writing for my future self. So that I will be able to know myself when I will re watch he will re watch it.A biologist who is married (but has lost his engagement ring somehow) is about to loss his wife due to some sort of cancer (tumor). She is losing her senses (only shown to have lost sense for sensing temperature). She has a seizure and was admitted to the hospital. Meanwhile, our biologist is trying to find cure for tumor by testing different drugs on monkeys(the test subjects). While he was upset and thinking about her wife condition, nurse warned the doctor the the test subject has been open for some time and is about to die if nothing is done soon. So they tried everything and nothing worked. Then he realized (which is shown as looking up to peep in his mind palace), that some extract from some tree could help stabilize her (monkey). And it worked. The monkey is better than before except her tumor. But he wanted to cure tumor so that he can save his wife. His team tested the same herb on different subject and it worked except the tumor is there, which later on starts decreasing. Now there are two other sets are there in the movie. One is the doctors mind palace, shown as a shown in an invisible bubble traveling in space. Inside it is dead tree of life and the doctor as a monk. The other is the fountain the book which her wife was writing. He has to complete the last chapter of the book as she could do it. So in the last chapter he writes the person who attacked him somehow realizes that he is not the second one to come to him after his after but he is the faster only. So he offer his throat. The lead character of the story moves on to find the tree of life. He stabbed his dagger in the tree trunk. A white shampoo like liquid comes out it. Which when dropped on ground kick started the growth of weed (life). Then he healed his wounds withe the same liquid. Then for unknown reason started drinking the liquid. Which kick started the growth of weed throughout his body thus killing the body. Meanwhile the mind palace guy is going into an about to die start. Which die with a supernova thus killing him and reviving the tree of life.