The Fall (2008)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Simply A Masterpiece

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

"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.

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!

"The Fall", Director's Tarsem Singh second feature has become a metaphor for shattering artists. A man played Lee Pace sit on a bed in sickbay of Los Angeles around year 1913. He gets encountered by a 10-year-old girl to whom he tells a fantastic story of a stranded group of diversity of man. In the parallel universe, they swim with elephant in the open sea and embark on an adventure to rescue a brother. Instead the narrator's alter-ego finds a princess, which breaks his heart.I have seen some thousands films in my time, but nothing compares to "The Fall" in which a Director purrs out his heart towards a lost love by utilizing every cell in his power to use the medium film to get over his real-life pain. Every frame of the mainly fixed camera spreads the Director's emotions over the canvas. The wish of being an Innocent girl, who has never felt loss in her life-span. And the suicidal father, who needs to ask three times in certain moments to get his message across to the girl, while the cinematography shows me nothing but two actors not connecting to each other.So magnificent some shots are in their splendor of design, color and environmental setting, I can only convince myself that Director Tarsem Singh at time of making this movie still processing his former boldness with from his 2000er debut and looking somehow forgiveness for the created nightmare in "The Cell". Nevertheless it is an extraordinary personalized effort of a director, who is seeking for a streamlining picture as whole piece of art. In "The Fall" transition shot problem occur, when the door to a fortress kicks open as homage to John Ford's unrivaled shot in 1956er "The Searchers", only masterful second by Martin Scrosese in 2002er "Gangs of New York".So what is left of highly conceptual-designed picture, which celebrates itself as the director's public therapy session, the emptiness of parting cast and crew to chase the next project, which has been regrettable became 2011er "Immortals", where the sensitive director has not been given the chance to explore his fear of been robbed of vision and eventually experiencing further growth as an artist, which feels to be one of the most promising production designer in recent movie history.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend

I found this movie accidentally after looking for the TV show the fall and i am so glad i did. The Imagery in this film are just so mesmerising combined with this unlikely array of characters and the simple yet so beautifully portrayed story make this a movie that is so great for just losing yourself in. It is so visually pleasing it doesn't even matter what the story could have been about fortunately the story as pleasing as the imagery. LOVED this film; now on my list of all time favourites.