THE FALL Film Review - 18/1/09

If you thought Director Tarsem Singh's clarity of vision was muted by his film "The Cell" with it's luxurious palette of expansive scenery & amazing visuals then think again! Traipsing all over the world for natural 'sets' the stunning location scenes flit from one part of the planet to the next. Bringing the complex world of the 1920's into life and then spinning a fantasy tale within that framework we see a view of the world from a child's eyes not too certain what is happening and how things sometimes don't make sense? The allegorical title charts both a fall literally and mentally as a stuntman working on the new 'flickers' gets badly injured in a horse chase. Spinning a fantasy tale to a young child of robbers & bandits in a quest for justice is his attempt to get the child to steal pills so the stuntman can end his life. But nothing prepares both the stuntman & the child for what lays ahead of them?