The Fall -review-
Time: 1920’s, Place: Los Angeles hospital. An injured stunt man, Roy Walker, tell an epic of 5 heroes out for revenge to an injured immigrant girl, Alexandria. While we hear Roy tell the tale with his own words, we see how his words form an interpreted & imagined world of Alexandria mind. Alexandria casts the story with people she knows and location are from a picture book of the worlds most beautiful places. Roy’s epic is filled with death, honor, pain, wonderment & love, which we learn mimics his own life. In the end the epic as well as the girl saves the broken hero.
Director Tarsem Singh goes around the world filming in 18 countries to achive this artful and stylized movie. The locations and compositions are stunning. The full use of every inch of the frame makes every shot a piece of art with in it self. Which in turn makes this film experience as visually and thought provoking as if you went to a spectacular art gallery for an evening. I look forward to seeing this again to be able to watch the pictures unfold before me.
