The long strange trip of 'The Fountain'

Perhaps Darren Aronofsky should have called his new movie "Love and Death." (Though that's been taken.) Or for prurient viewers "Rachel Weisz in a Bathtub." (But that would be misleading.) Either way such a title might have eased the marketing for a film about Big Ideas: the desire for perpetual life the hunger for love the resistance to death.