The Fall
The Fall
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
Decided to finally watch this after rewatching The Cell and wow, I loved this. Lee Pace stars as Roy Walker a paralyzed patient in a hospital in Los Angeles in 1915. He befriends a young patient Alexandria, that starts visiting him in the ward. He begins telling her stories attempting to coax her into stealing some morphine for him. Completely loved the dynamic of how Roy is telling the stories, but we’re visually seeing how young Alexandria is picturing the story. The people in and around Alexandria’s world appear as characters in the story. Roy adapts and changes the story based in Alexandria’s reactions to it, and how best he thinks he can get her to help him. And as the character’s becomes more fleshed out in Roy’s story, Alexandria’s visualization of them change. It’s a beautiful dynamic accentuated by some gorgeously captured locations. And as The Fall concludes and we’re given the context of the opening sequence and what the fall title refers to, I was utterly moved. It’s a fairly simple story, yet exquisitely rendered and beautifully structured. Highly recommend, if you haven’t seen it.