The Fall (2006)

Regista:

Tarsem Singh

Writers (WGA):

Dan Gilroy (screenplay) and
Nico Soultanakis (screenplay) ...

Data di uscita:

3 gennaio 2008 (Russia)

Genere:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy

Slogan:

A Little Blessing In Disguise.

Plot:

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. |

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | World Wide | Magic | Silent Movie | Stuntman

Premi:

2 wins

Recensioni degli utenti:

inner story should have been better

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Cast

Catinca Untaru	...	Alexandria
Justine Waddell	...	Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn
Lee Pace	...	Roy Walker
Kim Uylenbroek	...	Doctor / Alexander the Great
Aiden Lithgow	...	Alexander's Messenger
Sean Gilder	...	Walt Purdy
Ronald France	...	Otto
Andrew Roussouw	...	Mr. Sabatini
Michael Huff	...	Dr. Whitaker
Grant Swanby	...	Father Augustine
Emil Hostina	...	Alexandria's Father / Bandit
Robin Smith	...	Luigi / One Legged Actor
Jeetu Verma	...	Indian / Orange Picker
Leo Bill	...	Darwin / Orderly
Marcus Wesley	...	Otta Benga / Ice Delivery Man

Durata:

117 min

Nazionalità:

India | UK | USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

Divieti:

Netherlands:12 | USA:R

Luoghi delle riprese:

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Company:

Absolute Entertainment (II)

Curiosità:

This movie is inspired by the Bulgarian movie Yo ho ho (1981).

Citazioni:

Darwin: Shoot, you animals. They'll pay you well for Darwin's hide.

Movie Connections:

Rifacimento di Yo ho ho (1981)

inner story should have been better

There are so many great aspects to this film, the entrancing outer story, the absolutely amazing visuals, the multiple shades of events shifting and overlapping.

However, the beautifully photographed inner story starts out promising, but was not as good as it should have been and went on too long .... the plot was only superficially reflective of and intertwining with the outer story, and just not very interesting (my companion got bored and fell asleep). Other story-within-story movies have had much richer and more involved inner plots that interplay better with the outer plot (e.g. the Little Princess). This inner plot was rich only in the visuals.

There is a section of the inner story which includes an amount of mostly gruesome violence that becomes tedious.

Additionally, there were some promising threads in the outer plot that were not followed through on. So it was amazing on a number of levels, but flawed and ultimately unsatisfying, though I think still very worth seeing.