Hidden Gem #5

The Fall

The Fall, directed by Tarsem Singh, is a wonderfully crafted fairytale overlapping the story of a sad, desperate man.

The movie takes place in a hospital. Newly paralyzed stuntman meets a young little girl with a broken arm. She tells her a beautiful tale of 5 heroes going after evil dictator and save the damsel in distress. The plot of the fairy tale is very commonplace, but the aesthetic is some of the most beautiful imagery every put on screen. Everything is depicted at such a grand, decorative scale.

Back in the real world, the stuntman uses the young girl to score medication, some that he would use to kill himself now that he is paralyzed and no longer experience the thrills of cinema action again.

The young girl knows English as a second language, and while the lost in translation conversations can sometimes be endearing, it also gets old very fast and becomes more annoying than anything. Also the pacing of each individual story is fantastic but when intertwined they fail each other.

I couldn't help but think it could have been so much better. But Tarsem still delivers on a visceral level. The shear creativity of the flick should warrant a look-see from any kind of movie-goer.

Solid 7/10