In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic 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.
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Nate H. reviewed The Fall (2006)
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The Fall is one of those movies where I really wonder why I had never heard of it before Netflix. If you imagined a darker version of The Princess Bride which was shot 10 times more beautifully, you’d start to have an idea what The Fall is. Director Tarsem Singh hits a home run with his debut of a story between two patients at 1920’s era hospital in southern California. One is a Hollywood stuntman who has been paralyzed and has succumbed into a deep depression. The other is a little girl who comes to the stuntman to hear his wild stories. The movie bounces back and forth between reality and storyland and as the stuntman’s fairytale unfolds, so spins a plot in the real world which takes a sinister turn.
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