The Fountain is a 2006 film directed and written by Darren Aronofsky that explores the themes of life, love, death, rebirth and the ageless quest for immortality. The film encompasses three time periods within a millennium: a 16th-century conquistador, a modern scientist battling cancer, and an astronaut in deep space.

What if you could live forever?

Tom Creo

• All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pulled me through time.

• There's no hope for us here. There is only death.

• I am sorry, Father. For you there is only death. But our destiny is with life!

• Death is a disease. Its like any other. There is a cure, a cure — and I will find it.

• I'm here for her.

Isabel

• Together we will live forever.
• For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light.

Others

• Lord of Xibalba: Death is the road to awe.
• Grand Inquisitor Silecio: Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But, fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul.

Dialogue

Tom: I don't know if I can do it.

Izzi: You will, you can.

Tom: [smiling] I'm going to die.

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Tom Creo: There's been progress at work...

Izzi: [laughs] My conquistador! Always conquering.

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Tom: I finished it.

Izzi: Is everything alright?

Tom: Yes.

[kisses her]

Tom: Everything's alright.

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Grand Inquisitor Silecio: Yet another slice of her nation is mine. Soon she will be powerless against me. Queen of nothing but her sins.

Servant: What will you do with her?

Grand Inquisitor Silecio: She, too, will confess. And, then, she too will die.

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Soldier: Perhaps it is a trap.

Tomas: It is.

Soldier: Then what do we do?

Tomas: We break through.