The Fall (2006)

The Fall: Directed by Tarsem Singh. With Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek. 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 of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.

“It had seven days of delay – being promised to be released on December 27th, it got in theaters only by January 3rd. It wasnu0026#39;t that much of a delay, but it bothered. Anyway, I have just seen it and boy was I amazed. Imagine u0026quot;300u0026quot;u0026#39;s picture having one of the deepest plots that have ever been made and having the independence that even the most indiest indie film would have times ten. Imagine the stories that you made up and lived in under the blanket of your bed at night when your parents were asleep. Imagine that you still have an imagination of a child and an experience of a grown-up who had been struck by the truth that usually breaks peopleu0026#39;s dreams and illusions. This is u0026quot;The Fallu0026quot;. Honestly, I have never seen anything like this before. Being all obsessed with movies and watching every single one that seems interesting, I have never ever seen such power and independence in a film. Independent films usually have their common indie feel – a crooky picture that shows protest to all the camera glamour that most of Hollywood films have, lack of dialogues filled with deep thoughtful pauses and this pretentiousness that screams u0026quot;this is a masterpiece protest to Hollywood!u0026quot;. Hell no – u0026quot;The Fallu0026quot; has nothing of that at all. Having a breathtakingly gorgeous picture, it has smart dialogues and striking truth that is being told by a broken man to a little dreamful girl. This is not a protest – this is just a story one man named Tarsem had courage to tell. I may call it a genius piece of cinematography, a masterpiece and something like that, but loud words like these doesnu0026#39;t fit this experience that you will have to encounter by yourself. Believe me, you wonu0026#39;t find the right words to describe the feel that you will have after watching this one.”