The
Fall 9/10
I am
so pissed that I am just getting around to watching this movie. A
friend sent an image from it years ago and I was supposed to create
something (which I finally did) and we were talking about this movie
and I decided to finally watch it and I am glad I did. The Fall was
came out back in 2006 (or 2008 depending on who you ask) and is one
of those kind of movie that make you happy that movies exist because
there is nothing else that can be like this except for a fever dream.
It takes place in early 1900's Los Angeles and it starts off with no
sound. You just see a horse being rescued from a river while people
are shouting and then pulling someone out. A stuntman is injured
named Roy Walker and he is placed by Lee Pace. He is visited by this
little girl named Alexandria played by Catinca Untaru who is there to
have her broken arm fixed. He begins telling her a crazy ass story
the next day.
Roy
tells her a story about five men looking for revenge. There is an
Indian guy, an ex slave named Otta Benga, Charles Darwin, Luigi, and
a masked man. They all want revenge against Governor Odious for
various wrongs ranging from sending a dead butterfly to driving a
future bride to suicide to escape him. He's a dick. Alexandria is
picturing this adventure as it happens only to have the story stop
when a neighboring patient complains, she has to go to sleep, or she
has to use the rest room. These things are also incorporated into the
story. Meanwhile, Roy tries tricking Alexandria into getting him some
morphine so that he can kill himself because as far as he is
concerned his life is over. At one point when she gets injured trying
to get pills for him he drunkenly tells her the story and this time
instead of the heroic tale it turns into a damned blood bath that
makes her cry.
Its
hard to compare this movie with other ones but I can say which films
it made me feel like. Tale Of Tales for sure. Pan's Labyrinth in some
ways. Neverending Story. Just a really good movie with fantasy and
good story telling. If you have not checked this out you really
should. Is it okay for kids? Depends on how goofy you've raised them.
I watched horror films as a kid and I turned out okay...ish.
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