The Fall
The Fall
R | 30 May 2008 (USA)
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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.

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Cebalord

Very best movie i ever watch

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Dotsthavesp

I wanted to but couldn't!

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Zlatica

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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Bob

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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blumdeluxe

"The Fall" tells the story of a young girl, who is treated in a hospital and gets to know a young man that promises to tell her an adventurous story if she gets him the pills he needs to kill himself. Over the course of time, a story of love and hate, adventures and death evolves, that contains many autobiographical elements of both the story-teller and his listener.First of all you have to pay credit for the creativity, with which this movie is carried out. Also, the plot is magnificent and definitely different from many similarly schemed movies that are distributed each and every year. Unfortunately, for me the film feeled a bit to quiet. I understand that this man is broken-hearted and really on the edge of a depression but still the film could have used some more tension and twists. As it is, this is a beautiful story of a broken love, but it doesn't keep you on the edge of your chair.All in all it is nonetheless definitely worth a watch. Beautiful stories like this one aren't realized every day and for the superb pictures alone you should give this film a try.

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splpl

Lovely sumptuous film. Colour, Imagination and a captivating performance by Catina Untaru.

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markgibsonuk-04768

Formulaic, glitzy nonsense suitable for the under 12 market.

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Bernie Sauer

Tarsem Singh is the kind of film director most moviegoers label as off-putting because of his emphasis of image before plot. I would agree with this argument, and I would back it up completely with the haste of an objective, logical movie critic. But, that's not my style. I go with how the movie makes a logical or illogical impact, and if the "how" is fascinating, then I am fascinated.The Fall is an original film because it does what most filmmakers yearn to do: it creates images and visionary landscapes only our imaginations can produce. A year ago, I mentioned the same traits seen in Pan's Labyrinth. This time, Tarsem's vision overtakes the plot, and as risky as that may be, its pictorial energy wins you over.Around the 1920s, we find ourselves in a hospital in the desert outskirts of Los Angeles. An injured movie stuntman, Roy (Pace), is visited by Alexandria (Untaru), who has a broken arm and an eager imagination. To keep each other company, Roy tells a story about five mythical heroes who have one thing in common: they all want to seek revenge upon Odious, the evil dictator who took a particular piece of freedom away from each man. Roy is the storyteller, Alexandria is the story visionary, and we see everything she sees. Eventually, Roy's fictional story parallels with his real life, and Alexandria interprets both.We have two worlds working here: one between two unlikely friends and the other created by the co-existent imaginations of the two. As the little girl, Untaru's performance, is unfeigned, natural, and endearing.This is certainly the movie to leave you speechless.

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