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The Fall

The Fall

Adventure · Fantasy · Drama · 2006

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.

Movie details

The Fall

“A little blessing in disguise.”

2006 Adventure · Fantasy · Drama 1h 57m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.8 / 10

127.6K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

64 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

64 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.6 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Fall?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Tarsem Singh

Written by

Tarsem Singh · Dan Gilroy · Nico Soultanakis

Lee Pace

Lee Pace

Roy Walker

Justine Waddell

Justine Waddell

Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn

Daniel Caltagirone

Daniel Caltagirone

Sinclair / Governor Odious

Leo Bill

Leo Bill

Darwin / Orderly

Sean Gilder

Sean Gilder

Walt Purdy

Julian Bleach

Julian Bleach

Mystic / Orange Picker

Marcus Wesley

Marcus Wesley

Otta Benga / Ice Delivery Man

Court is in session

Put The Fall on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.