The Fall (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Fall |
| Original title | The Fall |
| Country of production |
India , United Kingdom , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tarsem Singh |
| script | Tarsem Singh Dan Gilroy Nico Soultanakis |
| production | Tarsem Singh |
| music |
Krishna Levy Ludwig van Beethoven (2nd movement of the seventh ) |
| camera | Colin Watkinson |
| cut | Robert Duffy |
| occupation | |
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The Fall (also the case - in the realm of fantasy ) is a fantasy film - Drama by Tarsem Singh from the year 2006 .
action
The framework story takes place alongside the fictional narrative level in Los Angeles in the 1920s. In a hospital, Roy Walker, seriously injured after a dangerous stunt, meets five-year-old Alexandria, who broke her arm while picking oranges. The doctors reveal to Roy that he will probably no longer be able to use his legs. In addition, his great love has left him, which actually desires the actor for whom he performed the stunt.
Roy Walker begins telling the girl a story about a group of six adventurers. Roy allows facts and people from the main narrative level to flow into the story. All six adventurers are united by the goal of taking revenge on the evil governor Odious for various personal reasons. The young girl is so fascinated by the story that she now visits bedridden Roy regularly and urges him to continue the story. Roy takes advantage of the girl's curiosity and asks her to steal morphine from the pharmacy for him. Within the fairy tale, the group soon succeeds in getting to the governor's residence.
In the main narrative level, however, Roy's state of health deteriorates considerably and his will to live dwindles more and more. After a failed suicide attempt, for which Alexandria steals morphine from his roommate, Roy suffers a nervous breakdown. Little Alexandria later tried again, this time on her own, to steal morphine for Roy, but fell and injured her head, whereupon she had to undergo an operation. Roy visits Alexandria at her bedside and begins to finish the story. Roy lets the protagonists of his story die one after the other while fighting with the governor's guards. Alexandria tearfully asks him for a happy ending to the story. However, Roy is so depressed by his fate in the real world that he finds it difficult to put a positive ending to the story. At the last second, however, he lets the main character of his fairy tale survive the fight against the governor.
The film ends with the hospital patients watching a film together in which Roy Walker played a role. Roy is puzzled that the scene that nearly killed him was cut from the film. Alexandria's arm heals and she returns to the orange plantation where her family works. Alexandria's voice tells the viewer that Roy has recovered and is now working as a stuntman again. As she speaks, some of the most dangerous stunt scenes from various silent films are shown and Alexandria is sure to recognize Roy in all the stuntmen performing.
background
For his second feature film after The Cell , Singh was inspired by the Bulgarian film My Friend, the Pirate (1981) by Sako Cheskija . Director, screenwriter and producer Tarsem Singh worked on The Fall for four years and traveled to over 20 different locations. The Japanese Eiko Ishioka was responsible for the costumes for the film .
The Fall premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival . In Germany it was shown for the first time on February 10, 2007 as part of the Berlinale , but did not start in German cinemas until March 12, 2009.
Reviews
“'The Fall' is a true child of its age that comes very close to the style of the ' pastiche ' described by Frederic Jameson : space and time have imploded, the result is a hybrid fantasy world in which five heroes from five eras are in Italy and To attack India, Indonesia and Brazil, Argentina and Egypt with swords, cunning and explosives of a personification of evil. "
"Some will want to watch it just because it exists [...] There will never be a film like this again."
"'The Fall' never gives the impression that it has any other raison d'être than to be beautiful to look at."
Felicitas Kleiner spoke in film-dienst 5/2009 of a tragic “anti- Scheherazade ” reversing the motif from the Arabian Nights , housed in a kind of “ Magic Mountain ” clinic, in which time seems to stand still:
“[...] As once for Scheherazade, remedies, alternative courses of action and new hopes can be drawn from the worlds of possibility [...] A visually powerful, suggestive reflection on the ambivalent power of human fantasy , which goes beyond the genre patterns of the fantasy epic The boundary between narrative cinema and video art moved. "
Web links
- The case in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions of BBFC 15 - original version of The Fall at Schnittberichte.com
- The Fall atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Fall . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 443 K).
- ↑ filmstarts.de
- ↑ Roger Ebert : The Fall. In: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com . May 29, 2008, accessed on February 18, 2009 (English): “a movie that you might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. [...] There will never be another like it "
- ↑ Marc Olsen: Movie Review - 'The Fall'. In: Los Angeles Times . May 9, 2008, accessed on February 18, 2009 : "There is never a sense that" The Fall "exists for any reason besides simply being something nice to look at."
- ↑ Felicitas Kleiner / film service: The Fall. (No longer available online.) In: film-dienst 5/2009. Archived from the original on April 14, 2009 ; Retrieved February 27, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
