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Photo: Poster for the film The Fall.
A paralyzed stuntman, Roy Walker, tells a story to a five year old girl Alexandria in 1920's era Los Angeles. As he gains her trust with a delightful and ambitious story, workers and other ill mates in the hospital start showing up in the story. As it turns out Roy wants more than enough morphine to finish his suicide.
Director Tarsem Singh makes a visually stunning drama. Singh is known for the vividness onscreen. What was weird for the beginning was the almost sepia lighting until the actual story being told by Roy starts coming around, that is when the thrilling views started to come in. Not sure if it was deliberate or not, but it created conflict to be jolted into the storytime. Singh spent 4 million of his own money on The Fall. With his own money at stake, every little detail was noticed.
The story did sag for a couple moments but otherwise it was entertaining. The biggest factor of this is the beautiful locations and that was awe inspiring. Lets hope we get to see more from this writer and director. He's obviously talented, so lets hope he does not go to waste on novelty films, and instead makes the right choices with his selections of film to make. One of the strong points is his writing, but it looks like he is doing other people's screenplays instead. Tarsem has stories to tell and that is the most important thing. In the credits the "written by" has his name last so it seems he changed enough of the story to get a credit but it was somebody else's story. He doctored it enough to make it his.
The recommendation for this film is for film lovers and film buffs, but not quite everybody because the story won't keep you captivated at a hundred percent.
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