The Fall (2008)
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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Sick Product of a Sick System
To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
Blistering performances.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Maybe the most endearing thing about this whole film is the disturbed and comical dialogue between the little girl and the hurt stunt-man. But that's not where the film ends, by a long shot. Costuming, locations, superb acting, pathos, and a historical setting all combine seamlessly to give us a classic feel reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz or The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen or, better yet, The Princess Bride. And the scene with the Eucharist is worth time spent with the whole film! There is some violence, but it is muted and made fantastic.
And the most beautiful I've ever seen. These colors and landscapes just hypnotise you to the point that you feel like you're inside of the picture. A good story is attached to it too: two souls travel together to the world of their shared subconsciousness.
Lovely sumptuous film. Colour, Imagination and a captivating performance by Catina Untaru.
An injured stuntman (Lee Pace, "Guardians of the Galaxy") and a young orange-picker girl (the uber talented - Catinca Untaru) - both "fell and fractured" - strike a chance friendship in their hospital. Roy begins telling her a story of romance, bandits, adventure with Charles Darwin, a Pyrotechnic, an Indian Warrior, a Free-Slave as their peers. The epic-plot flushed out of Roy's own remorse and heartbreak, ironically set in the magnificent palaces of India, though, it is with little Alexandria's potent and pure imagination we all see a world beyond the helpless shortsightedness. To have fallen is human, but to have risen must feel divine.It's surprising to have found "hope" in the most unlikely of places; but, that becomes "soul enriching" to have attained so from a child's vision.A moving, heartfelt account of fantasy-drama, which couldn't have been summarised any better by Alain de Botton... 'The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.' ... so, indeed.Outstanding!