The Fall (2006)

A film styling that reminded me a lot of Pan's Labyrinth, a kid's fantasy with adult themes. A film that Ebert put in his top 10 list of the year, and one that I can't say that I loved.

The film takes place at a hospital in LA where a stuntman has hospitalized after jumping [FALLing] off a bridge on a horse (the opening sequence). A young girl is also in the hospital after FALLing while picking oranges, back in the day where their are no child labor laws... The main character Roy [Lee Pace] starts telling Alexandria [Catinca Untaru] a fantasy story about a group of men hunting down an evil man. The story is clearly Roy talking about the actor he does stunt work for and the girl he lost to this actor. Through the fantasy people start dying, all taking big falls... the central theme to the film.


All in all, it was a creative film, and I loved the narrator and girl changing the fantasy in real-time. It was a cool film, that I thought would be good for a young audience... except for all of the dead. The guy wants to commit suicide in real life with the girls help, and he is killing people off in his sadistic fantasy that he is telling this young girl. Pretty creepy, and no good target audience. It makes sense that this is the same director [Tarsem Singh] from The Cell with Jennifer Lopez.

Vote: 6/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/
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