I think it is time to make my first real journaly entry here on dA. There is no big reason for it but I might do it every now and then. Let’s use this option if it is given.

I saw a movie a tad bit more than 3 weeks ago (and then three other times till now), and couldn’t get it out of my head so far. It is called The fall, a film by Tarsem Singh. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard about it, not many people know it, which is a shame to say the least. It wasn’t overpromoted, was screened only in a few theaters with years delay – I really cannot get why. It’s almost outrageous, considering that load of trash that gets through to the viewers and in most of the theaters, while such gem of art does not. Maybe it is the type of film that you get and feel on the spot and love immediately, or you forget it with a shrug, maybe even confused.
For the plot go and check it out on imdb: [link] . I won’t talk here about the captivating visuals that it creates (no CGI at all, only real landscapes. The return of the Movie – in block letters!), because the film is not only about that; the beautiful images don’t make it shallow at all. The acting it stunning, the chemistry between the two main characters, the little girl and the stuntman with a broken heart is so perfect, so natural that you sometimes feel as if you were spying on them. Here is a child actress who plays a child, really and believably, and not a child actress who does an adult acting and emotion displaying forced into a child’s body. So great, as if she thought the whole film was real in a way. And there is Lee Pace, so gorgeous in the role of the stuntman, so heart-wrenchingly depressed and tired of living (and so handsome, btw^.^) that it is hard to bear him a grudge for using the girl the way he does.
A tale is told here by him, and slowly reality and fantasy start blend together, whatever others say, seamlessly. The tale itself is the magnificent imagination of a child, its story is ever changing, sometimes full of intentional inconsistency, just like a real bedtime story which is fabricated on the fly, and still it holds symbols and metaphors of their lives. Tarsem brings back something that is long forgotten.
If you wanna see something original and beautiful, go and watch this film.

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