Before Lee Pace became the Ronan or Thranduil, He was the Black Bandit in the movie The Fall. Before this movie, the only Indian director I know is M. Night Shyamalan. Only after watching it that I realized it was directed by the same director for the movie The Cell starring J. Lo, and the shitty movie Mirror Mirror starring Julia Roberts. The man I am talking about is Tarsem.
Some say it is pretentious, The Cell is just an OK movie for me. Undeniably, some images had disturbed me while watching it when I was only 14. However The Fall is totally a different story. It is truly the magnum opus of Tarsem. I first knew about this movie through a video talking about Satoshi Kon, from the channel called Every Frame a Painting.
The Fall is the very definition of every frame a painting. The entire movie is done with little to no CGI, that is reason enough to check it out. Movies we get nowadays are so overly depended on CGI, I am just glad that movie of this scale is still being made. It is the only movie I feel able to match the epic vibe Beethoven's works give out and put them into good use. The opening scene is showing exactly that.
The following would be a spoiler. Almost everyone dies at the end. Each death scene is tragic but beautifully tragic. It is how I would imagine when people talking about Greek or Shakespearean tragedy although I know nothing much about either of them. Plus the ending is set in Jodhpur, a magical place I'd visited, which gives me another reason to love this movie even more.
The only flaw I found is the little girl's accent. It is sometimes difficult to understand what she said which prevents me from being totally immersed into the movie. Apart from that, I love this movie. It is one hell of a majestic piece of art.
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