Dated Released : 30 May 2008
Quality :
DVDrip-aXXo
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0460791
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace
Genre : Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
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REVIEW
Diceritakan bahwa pada tahun 1915, seorang gadis kecil berumur 5 tahun, Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), yang berasal dari suatu negara di Eropa, dirawat di sebuah rumah sakit di Los Angeles karena lengannya patah akibat jatuh dari memetik buah jeruk di perkebunan tempatnya bekerja. Di rumah sakit, Ia sudah cukup dikenal oleh berbagai orang dari suster, dokter, pendeta, pasien, hingga seorang tukang pengantat es balok. Suatu hari, Ia bertemu dengan Roy (Lee Pace), seorang stuntman di Hollywood, yang dirawat karena mencoba bunuh diri dengan melonpat dari rel kereta saat di lokasi shooting. Roy, yang begitu kecewa melihat wanita yang dicintainya menikah dengan aktor terkenal, menceritakan Alexandria sebuah kisah epik tentang lima pahlawan yang melawan kekejaman Governor Odius (Daniel Caltagirone), yaitu Black Bandit (Lee Pace), Luigi (Robin Smith), Charles Darwin (Leo Bill), Indian Man (Jeetu Verma), dan Otta Benga (Marcus Wesley). Kelima pahlawan dibantu oleh manusia mistis yang lahir dari pohon bernama Mystic (Julian Bleach) dan juga bertemu dengan seorang putri yang dicintai oleh Masked Bandit yang bernama Evelyn (Justin Waddell). Alexandria pun seudah tersedot masuk dalam cerita itu dan tidak sadar kalau ia hanya dimanfaatkan oleh Roy untuk melakukan sesuatu hal.
Kisah epik yang diceritakan Roy ditampilkan dengan begitu hidup, jenaka, imajinatif, liar, dan tidak terduga. Apa yang dilakukan Tarsem Singh bukan sekedar melakukan shooting di tempat-tempat indah dan menangkap setiap momen dengan indah pula. Ia juga memperlakukan visual sebagai sebuah trik mata dan pikiran. Tarsem tidak hanya menampilkan dunia imajinasi, tapi juga menarik kita dalam proses berimajinasi itu sendiri. Opening dari film ini pun terasa seperti potongan-potongan dari sebuah mimpi, dengan adanya orang bernampilan seperti suku Indian, sepasang kekasih yang sedang berpacaran, dua orang pria yang sedang tenggelam, sebuah kereta yang dihentikan, dan seekor kuda yang ditarik dengan tali karena jatuh ke sungai. Keunikan inilah yang membuat penonton menjadi ikut berkhayal bersama dengan Roy dan Alexandria.
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RESENSI
In 1920s Los Angeles,
stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is in a hospital, bedridden and possibly paralyzed after a jump he took in his first film. One day, a note blows in through his window and lands on his bed. Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), the young patient who wrote the note, rushes in to take it back. Roy tells her she is named after Alexander the Great, one of the greatest warriors of all time, and begins to tell her a story about him. Alexandria is told she has to leave, but not before Roy promises to tell her an epic tale if she will return the next day.
The next morning, as Roy spins his tale of fantasy, Alexandria's imagination brings his characters to life. Roy's tale is about five heroes: a silent Indian warrior, a muscular ex-slave named Otta Benga (see
Ota Benga, possible source of name); a cigar chomping Italian explosives expert called Luigi; a surreal version of
Darwin with a pet
monkey named Wallace (after
Alfred Russel Wallace) that communicates only with Darwin; and a masked swashbuckling bandit in a sleeveless Hussar jacket, padres hat and samurai style pants, who uses a matched pair of flintlock pistols. An evil ruler named Odious has committed an offense against each of the five, who all seek revenge.
The heroes have been stranded on a butterfly-shaped reef with only a distant swim to shore, but the Masked Bandit can't swim. The group is jolted into action when word arrives that Odious will hang our bandit's brother. Darwin spots a swimming elephant on which the bandit rides to shore, where they are joined by a sixth hero, a mystic who emerges from a smoldering tree trunk after it had burst into flames.
The story is presented as Alexandria vividly imagines it, her friends and the people around her appearing as the characters in Roy's story. One of her Sikh friends, who works at the orchard with her family, becomes the scimitar-flashing swordsman; one of her nurses becomes the Bandit's romantic pursuit; one of Roy's visitors, a professional one-legged stuntman, becomes Luigi (now with two legs); and the ice delivery man becomes the fierce African warrior, who freed himself from bondage.
Although Roy develops genuine affection for Alexandria, he also has an ulterior motive: by telling tales and gaining her trust, he tricks her into stealing morphine from the hospital pharmacy so that he can attempt suicide. To Roy's dismay, the scribbled word he had used to show Alexandria which bottle to get ended with an 'E' that looked like a reversed 3. Alexandria, who didn't know how to read English well, assumed he wanted 3 morphine pills instead of a whole bottle. Roy is surprised when she brings him only three pills, telling her they are only enough for "a nap."
As the line between fact and fantasy blurs, more real-life people begin to populate Roy's fictitious stories and the stories themselves become a collaborative tale to which Alexandria also contributes. A hospital nurse, Evelyn, (Justine Waddell) becomes the center of a romantic feud between Governor Odious and the masked bandit, who is Roy. Alexandria herself becomes a character in the story: while Roy is the masked bandit, she is his daughter. Roy talks Alexandria into stealing a bottle of Morphine tablets locked in a fellow patient's cabinet. Roy and Alexandria then have a touching scene as Roy downs the whole bottle. Going to see Roy the next morning, Alexandria sees a sheet covered body in the courtyard outside and thinks that he is dead. Running to Roy's bed she is surprised to find him asleep. After Alexandria awakens Roy, he realizes he is only alive because his neighboring patient is receiving a placebo. As Roy is restrained after yelling in anger, Alexandria is shuffled away.
Later that evening nurse Evelyn puts a pensive Alexandria to bed. Alexandria, desperate to help Roy, sneaks out of bed but, on her way to the pharmacy becomes frightened by a masked x-ray technician, seemingly wielding a sword. In the pharmacy, she climbs onto the cabinet but loses her footing on a pestle, and falls to the floor surrounded by morphine pills.
After surgery (depicted in an
expressionistic stop-motion animated sequence by
Wolfgang and
Christoph Lauenstein, typical of their style), Alexandria is visited by the bewheeled Roy in the recovery room, where he consoles her and confesses his deception. Now he can imagine only a grim ending to the tale, encouraging Alexandria to ask someone else to tell it, but she, in tears, insists on hearing Roy's ending.
Roy reluctantly begins the rest of the story. The heroes die one by one, and it seems that Odious will be triumphant. Alexandria becomes upset, and Roy insists, "It's my story." She declares "Mine too," and in the end is able to exert some influence on the course of the tale. Finally the epic tale the two have been telling comes to an end with only the Bandit and his daughter remaining alive and Odious dying.
Next we watch as the patients and staff of the hospital watch a viewing of the finished 'flicker' that had started. The film is hand cranked through a projector. Roy in his wheel chair with a beaming Alexandria on his right, and the children watch in awe as the still frames become a moving picture. With everyone laughing, only Roy's smile is broken in confusion when he sees that his life-threatening leap has been edited out of the film and that his horse is once again alive as another stuntman jumps from the railroad trestle safely into the saddle.
The film then cuts to a healed Alexandria placing the false teeth of our film's old man/mystic into the halves of an empty orange and planting them in the ground. Will they grow oranges with teeth her Sikh friend asks, as he makes a sign for a butterfly while nodding his head backwards. Alexandria, getting his hint, runs to see the butterfly as her voice over tells us her mother has learned that Roy had recovered and was now back at work again.
At first she tells us she didn't believe it, but as she talks – a montage of cuts from several of silent films' greatest and most dangerous stunts go by as Alexandria continues speaking. She imagines them all to be Roy, even imagining Roy to be
Buster Keaton as walls fall down around him.
Cast
Release
The Fall premiered at the
2006 Toronto International Film Festival. For its theatrical release in 2008, the film was presented by
David Fincher and
Spike Jonze.
Reception
( sumber :wikipedia )
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