| Message | Thank you so very much for The Fountain. Seeing it on opening weekend was one of the most emotional experiences I have ever had watching a film. Two days before the film opened, I solidified my decision to ask my girlfriend, Becky, to marry me, and went and bought an engagement ring. About an hour afterwards, I became a nervous wreck, just filled with anxiety about whether I made the right decision. I was like that until we went and saw the film. Throughout the film, I kept substituting Becky and I in place of Izzy and Tom, imagining how I would feel if she were dying. Just feeling how devastated I would be if she died clinched the idea that I had made the right decision to ask her to be my wife. After the film was over, we started walking to the bus stop to go home. But within 15 steps of leaving the theatre, I started balling like a child, partly because of how emotional the film was, but also out of relief from all the worry and anxiety I had been experiencing since buying the ring. A month later, on the 3rd anniversary of our first date, I proposed, and she said yes. We'll be getting married in November, and although we'll eventually pass away, our love will live forever. So thank you for this experience. Thank you for not giving up on this story, for staying with it, for working so hard to make sure this story was told, so that others could experience it and be moved. Best of luck to you, and hopefully we'll be seeing you again in a darken theatre real soon. |