The Fall is a adventure epic, told by a depressed man in order to trick young naive child to steal him drugs. Sound
horrible... well trust me its great.
The Man and young girl are in hospital together, he befriends the curious girl to help him steal morphine tablets to commit suicide. In return he tells her a epic tale of the 5 bandits.
The Fall comes from the strange mind of Tarsem, whose only other feature was the widely unpopular The Cell, which i actually liked. I think the problem people have with Tarsem is that he is wonderful weird. The Cell was undoubtably bleak and the story wasn't solid, but you couldn't knock the art direction. Even though this is Tarsem's second film he is known for style over substance. However, i feel The Fall as a nice mix of the two. It is a complete made up story (i think) which, you don't see much of in cinema these days. It has a great childish quality, which is helped with the bright colours of the fairy tale world.
This took Tarsem four years to make, this explains why he hasn't made a film since The Cell. He had locations in 24 countries! So he could bring life to his vivid imagination. I hear he had much trouble getting people on board to make the flick, which added to the length of the production.
But, i believe it was all worth it. The fairy tale world looked outstanding. However, Its long post production and distributing means it'll probably go unseen by many and won't get the critical acclaim it deserves.
WHICH...leads me on to my next point...
The awards ceremonies. Over the last month it's been the film award season, which has seen Slumdog Millionaire rightly pick up the gongs. It probably won't be a all time great, but it's a good fun film, which everybody can enjoy from film critics to the chavs at the end of your street. However, we haven't had the greatest year in film dramas, but we've seen some super action adventures... lets reflect! The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Cloverfield, Rock n Rolla, The Wrestler,
COMEDIES... Wall-e, Pineapple Express, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Step Brothers, Burn after Reading, Vicky Christina Barcelona. So, we've had a fun year and by the looks of things were in for another!
Poor old Mickey Rourke! I really felt for the guy this morning, i bet he thought he was a shoe in for the award. I'm surprised that before they announced the winner he hadn't already stood up. I'm pretty sure everybody thought he was going to win, even Sean Penn... did you see the size of his speech, it looked like a shopping list (not a big shopping list, a small one).
It felt more like an award ceremony for people who was due an award rather than deserved an award! And, if nobody was due one they flipped a card for the winner, with one side saying SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and the other side saying CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. But it seems instead of a piece of card they used piece of toast with Benjamin Button written in butter
2 comments:
doesn't the butter-side-down rule mean that Button would have won everything?
Correct, my mistake... I've changed it.
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