The Fall
Directed by Tarsem SinghIn 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.
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- VarunNovember 22, 2024What 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.
- Kevin WardJuly 2, 2025Decided 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.
- DarthBob31July 4, 2025What a lovely film
- CamFlixxxMay 4, 2025Incredibly beautiful cinematography. Like a surrealist painting come to life at times. They did my boy Darwin dirty tho…
- NonPlayableContentApril 18, 2025B rated Pan's Labyrinth
- ayayronFebruary 23, 2025Visually stunning and emotional story of pain, love and heroism
- Billy ZaneDecember 29, 2024Beautiful film
