Goodbye For Now - The Fountain

Movie: The Fountain
Music: Goodbye For Now by Thomas Bergersen
Stars: Hugh Jackman (Tomas / Tommy / Tom Creo), Rachel Weisz (Queen Isabella / Izzi Creo)

The Fountain is actually an interweaving of 3 stories with the same characters and the same goal-- finding the mythical, medical, and spiritual Fountain of Youth which will put an end of the pesky problems of disease and death.

The film's opening is convoluted as it introduces the 3 stories which are all in different stages of progression. The first story introduces us to a Conquistador, Tomas (Hugh Jackman), who is fiercely loyal and dedicated to the service of Queen Isabel (Rachel Weisz), the Kingdom of Spain, and its growing empire. However, the queen is embattled by the Catholic Church, which learns of her plans to find the Fountain of Youth (well actually it's a tree that gives eternal life to whomever drinks of its sap). The queen has been deemed a heretic by Father Avila (Mark Magolis) her prime opponent, who calls for her arrest and undeniably, her execution.

The second story concerns Dr. Tommy Creo (Jackman) and his stricken wife Izzi (Weisz). Tommy tirelessly toils to find a cure for the tumor that is rapidly growing inside of Izzi. Ironically, he spends so much time and energy at work to save her from death, that he squanders the precious little time that she has left to live. His long hours and consuming passion raises concern with his boss, Lillian (Ellen Burstyn), who is irked that Tommy is taking risks with unapproved drugs and not spending more time with his terminally ill wife.

The final story again features Izzi and Tommy, this time the setting is a sphere ascending the cosmos on its way to a star that was worshiped by ancient Peruvians, who believed it was the gateway to Heaven. However, we see that only Tommy is physically there, as Izzi appears solely as phantasmic flashbacks, to which Tommy reacts intensely. Along for the ride is a leafless tree from which Tommy subsists by eating tiny pieces of its bark. The tree, like Izzi, is dying and again, it's all he can do is plead for it to hold on, until he can find a way to save it.