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     <figcaption>Lee Pace as <i>The Masked Bandit</i></figcaption>
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-  <p>Beautiful. Amazing colors, artful storytelling, gripping story. I honestly can't believe the idiots that called this movie "boring" in the YouTube trailers. Clearly they have the attention span of a fly and a distain of visual art. The costuming and colors are vibrant and visually stunning, and it's clear why this movie was a launching point for Lee Pace. Little Alexandria from India finds herself in a Los Angeles infirmary waiting to heal. She is an inquisitive and bright girl who makes friends with the nurses and others around the compound. After losing a note she wrote for a nurse friend, she meets Roy, a movie stunt man with broken legs that may never walk again. It's a story of a young, colonized girl's perception of the world and a broken man's inner battle with suicide and heartbreak. I won't give too much more of the plot away, go watch it for yourself. Never once did I feel like the director was babying me with the dialogue even though much of the film had narration. A deep breath of fresh air coming off of stereotypically 2010s TV. Scenes were artfully edited, replacing words mid-sentence with the meaningful actions that needed to be shown. None of this "and then he died" BS in lesser film dialogue writing. The ending did start to over narrate, but it fit with the mental state of the narrator. Sound design is another high, demanding your mental attention and a decent sound system. One of the standout moments to me was when Alexandria had to step out of the room when a guest came to visit Roy. She waited, seated just outside the archway ready to return. As she waits, she notices a priest talking with a resident just a few steps down the short hall in another room. She's clearly trying to hear both conversations, ready to go back to Roy so she can hear more of the story, yet curious as to what the others might be talking about. Each conversation fades in and out of the mix as she focuses on one vs the other. At times as she loses focus or is trying to pay attention to both, they are equally loud making it difficult to discern what is happening. It's a small thing, but it really puts the viewer in Alexandria's mind, or at least her ears and focus.</p>
+  <p>Beautiful. Amazing colors, artful storytelling, gripping story. I honestly can't believe the idiots that called this movie "boring" in the YouTube trailers. Clearly they have the attention span of a fly and a distain of visual art. The costuming and colors are vibrant and visually stunning, and it's clear why this movie was a launching point for Lee Pace. Little Alexandria from Romania finds herself in a Los Angeles infirmary waiting to heal. She is an inquisitive and bright girl who makes friends with the nurses and others around the compound. After losing a note she wrote for a nurse friend, she meets Roy, a movie stunt man with broken legs that may never walk again. It's a story of a young, colonized girl's perception of the world and a broken man's inner battle with suicide and heartbreak. I won't give too much more of the plot away, go watch it for yourself. Never once did I feel like the director was babying me with the dialogue even though much of the film had narration. A deep breath of fresh air coming off of stereotypically 2010s TV. Scenes were artfully edited, replacing words mid-sentence with the meaningful actions that needed to be shown. None of this "and then he died" BS in lesser film dialogue writing. The ending did start to over narrate, but it fit with the mental state of the narrator. Sound design is another high, demanding your mental attention and a decent sound system. One of the standout moments to me was when Alexandria had to step out of the room when a guest came to visit Roy. She waited, seated just outside the archway ready to return. As she waits, she notices a priest talking with a resident just a few steps down the short hall in another room. She's clearly trying to hear both conversations, ready to go back to Roy so she can hear more of the story, yet curious as to what the others might be talking about. Each conversation fades in and out of the mix as she focuses on one vs the other. At times as she loses focus or is trying to pay attention to both, they are equally loud making it difficult to discern what is happening. It's a small thing, but it really puts the viewer in Alexandria's mind, or at least her ears and focus.</p>
   <p>One thing is clear. If you go into this movie with preconceptions, you might end up with the same feelings as the ignorant commentators. The secondary &lpar;in my opinion&rpar; storyline, which is a fictional revenge plot, is extremely surreal and fantastical with the flexibility one would expect from a tale spun as its being told. I should also point out this is a remake of another movie, YO HO HO. Here's a <a href="https://thebedlamfiles.com/commentary/yo-ho-ho-vs-the-fall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">commentary piece</a> on the two. That author comes to the same conclusion as the other commentators, though, so YMMV. The discontent felt from Alexandria sitting in bed with Roy as he tells her the story is I think a bit presumptuous on the author's part. The director was clearly depicting a father-daughter bond in my view. Not to mention Roy is paralyzed from the waste down while healing, and Alexandria isn't one to let others tell her what to do. There were no sexual implications I picked up on, and considering his suicidal contemplation, I think he's got plenty on his mind already. As for the dissatisfying resolution: good. I don't think a satisfying resolution to their "friendship" that the commentator disliked anyway was the point. From what I saw, this movie is from Alexandria's perspective through and through, with glimpses into the lives of others. Aside from two moments of contradiction at the end, Roy just happens to be one of the main people we hear about with Alexandria as the lens. With that taken into account, I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume Alexandria was able to move on in the same way she moved attention between conversations early in the movie. Roy was important to her because she wanted to hear the ending of the story. She has a coping mechanism for loss even before she meets Roy, and once it's time to part ways she is able to switch her attention to the fond memories and seeing him in movies. It doesn't matter what Roy thinks or feels because in the end it's not about Roy specifically. Just because this commentator can't see from a child's perspective doesn't mean the ending is "misconceived" as it was so bluntly put. Similarly to the comment about sexual implication, the movie is from her perspective with her emotions at the front. We know she's lost her dad, and Roy telling stories is the closest she's getting to another father, as she herself shows through her own insertion into the story at the end as his daughter. Assuming her being in bed is for Roy's gratification is completely missing the point. There's something to be said about real life, but this is a movie telling a story.</p>
   <p>Watching this after a discussion about and reading of postcolonial poetry did give a lot of insight and depth to many of the scenes which I probably wouldn't have picked up on otherwise. Don't take my word for it, though, go watch it yourself. As critic Roger Ebert put it, "Watch [The Fall] simply because it exists. There won't be another like it."</p>
   <p><a href="https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/02/17/tarsem-the-fall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Before Your Very Eyes: Tarsem's The Fall</a> review</p>