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.
Varun reviewedNovember 22, 2024
What a marvellous spectacle! The scenery and visual beauty of this movie is unbelievable, and the seamless transitions that blend fictional elements into the natural world is wondrous. Yes there is a meaning attached to the end of the movie, but one may still ask what is the point of spending enormous amounts of time, energy and money on the grand set pieces for such a silly nonsensical story, especially one that seems to be make-believe blabber? The director even bankrupted himself making of this film. The point is to just tell a story. Humans cannot live without stories. We conceptualise our whole lives with made up structures of various stories. It’s like asking what the purpose of life is, and the most fundamental answer is just to live. To tell a story because it can be told. Why do you think we spend billions on creating superhero movies? On some level every story can be considered both silly and profound. It’s how you view it that matters. And in this movie, the story was completely meaningless to Roy, a means to an end, but for the girl it was everything. I loved that there was also a bit of suspense for the audience to figure out what it’s all about, some may feel they wasted their time but personally I really appreciated the vision behind this movie to expound on the power of storytelling and the innocent hope and strength that children bring to fairy tales and life itself. The pacing and switching of the 2 parallel stories is pretty good. The girl did such an amazing job acting this role. I had zero idea Lee Pace was in this, coincidentally I had just watched him a week ago as the sinister emperor in the tv show Foundation, so it was nice to see a little bit of similarity as well as contrast in his character. I don’t think this movie is a masterpiece but it’s a must see for the visuals alone, like there were so many scenes I just couldn’t wrap my head around how much effort they put even just for mundane sequences, and some of the symmetrical imagery was splitting my brain apart. I loved the ending and I think that just based on the themes and final lesson, this movie will stick with me forever and remind me of what’s important during tough times.