Movie Review: The Fall

The Fall

Tarsem Singh’s The Fall was an aesthetically pleasing film, but the plot fell short.  I watched this film last night with my family hoping for a next big family hit, sadly my mother fell asleep and all my father said was “Kinda Cutsey,” unforunttately I have to agree with him.  While this film was filled with vividly pleasing, epic imaginative scenes the story was not up to par with the incredible cinemtography.

The story takes place in Romania, a little girl has broken her arm and has to stay in a hospital for some time.  This little girl is incredibly imagantive, she is always being entranced by one thing or another and amusing every one of the hospitals staff.  She meets a sad depressed man who has jumped off a bridge and broken both of his feet, the man is a suffering from a case of depression and has a bad drug addiction to morphine.  At first the man is friendly to this little girl, he contiunes to tell her stories that captivate her imagination.  But by the end of the movie we are revealed the true side of this man, he is just a poor guy suffering from a drug addiction.  He makes the little girl go and grab morphine pills so that he can sustain his addiction.

The man tells the little girl captivating stories in a some-what delrious state, we the audiences are put the perspective of the vivid girls imagination and are whisped away to this magical land inside the girls hand.  The tale is of five heroes who must assinate an evil doer, each one of the heroes has been ruined by this mad man.  The plot takes us through breath taking landscapes of numerous countries, we see almost all of the great wonders of the world.  Vivid mayan trances are beheld and rolling hills of deserts are show thoroughout the movie.

While the scenery is incredibly beautiful, there is hardly a story to follow.  There is no moral at the end of this movie, and the little girl sadly falls down and cracks her head open.  The man then finishes his story killing off all of the heroes but one, making the little girl sob to tears.  If given the chance to watch this movie a second time I would promplty decline, it just isn’t intresting enough and moves as slow as a snail.  Although I would watch this movie again if I had never seen it before.