Review of The Fall (2006) by Statlerwaldorf — 27 Oct 2015
You can find it filed under Netflix subgenre “Overacted Visually Striking Historical Fantasy Epic”. There are two ways to watch this movie, one is just to watch it, in which case you might as well just make a slideshow of stills and set those as your screensaver.
Wait, there are three ways, because you could also take mushrooms and put it on a projector, which will be a “trip”—as they are fond of saying. The third way is to watch it while mentally projecting the invisible character of Tarsem Singh pacing like an angry tiger on the periphery of every scene.
In case you are unfamiliar, here’s the new synopsis: inexperienced director sinks fortune and years of his and others’ lives into passion/vanity project that is supposed to be the ultimate ode to old school film making.
See Tarsem pouring over a script for too long to keep it straight. See Tarsem yelling at his adorable actors until they start to breakdown for real. But also, see Tarsem searching the world over for the most beautiful places you have never seen, and lovingly recreating the greatest non-CG effects with such audacious aplomb that you simply can’t understand how the **** he pulled off some of those shots, and see someone obsessed with dead filmmaking make a film about dying filmmaking in a confused and beautiful hurricane of love and futility.
Do that and you’ll be glad you got something more than a screensaver and a trip to the hospital like your other two friends.
This review of The Fall (2006) was written by Statlerwaldorf on 27 Oct 2015.
The Fall has generally received very positive reviews.
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