The Fall – A Movie Everyone Should See (but hardly anyone has)
Tarsem’s “The Fall” is first and foremost a visual feast of almost unimaginable beauty. That there is a compelling story as well as a marvelous performance by Catinca Untaru just confirms it as being one of the best films I have seen in a very long time. In a time where imagination seems to be stalling and more and more movies are playing it safe, this is a film which is daring to the point of being insane. Some internet research reveals that Tarsem spent millions of his own dollars in getting this film made and that makes a lot of sense. At its script level and even in its final execution, I cannot imagine any studio considering it to be marketable in the least, a fact which is borne out by the film’s damn poor box office showing. Roger Ebert mentions in his review that there will never be another like it and that is possibly true. All the more reason that everyone should see this. They say we go to movies as a means of escape, well there can be no better escape than this –