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[holyviolence]

(RE)WATCHED IN 2023: —Why are you killing everybody? Why are you making everybody die? —It's my story. —Mine too.

THE FALL (2006) DIR. TARSEM SINGH

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[beautifulgiants]

[picspammer]

Are you trying to save my soul?

[se7enpixels]

The Fall (2008) dir. Tarsem Singh

[aliensamba]

The Fall

[cinematicjourney]

The Fall (2006) | dir. Tarsem Singh

[verkomy]

I think it’s time to rewatch the greatest movie of all time which is the fall (2006) by tarsem singh

[orangechickenpillow]

I love when people love the movies they've been in, especially when those movies are underrated and getting old

[randomrichards]

THE FALL:

Girl in hospital

Listens to revenge fable

Told by sad stuntman

[cainibilza]

Watching The Fall again after several years. Think last I saw this movie was back in 2016. Back then I can't truly appreciate it the way I do now and there's a lot more to uncover. And I'm happy that the end of the movie, both Alexandria and Roy actually get to hang out much longer, to heal one another in a little and dimly depressing hospital, reimagined into vast and colourful world as they journey together in another epic fantasy. I wish I knew what story Roy gonna tell next and I could imagine too Alexandria keep cutting in saying "No, not like that Roy!". Or "You keep talking about cats, where is the dragon? You promised to let me ride on it!"- and then the trajectory of the story changes again 😂

[sara-sandoval73]

The Fall (2006) constume design analysis

My love for this movie possessed me to write this in a fit of hyperfixation so its mostly for the fun of it. I want to focus on the costume of Evelyn/ “The princess” because while playing a minor role within the story, I think her costume has the most impact.

At the start of the movie, Roy promised Alexandria an epic tale of love and revenge. By the time we are finally introduced to a female character she is quickly inserted as the romantic interest. In the hospital we see many young nurses and nuns; so it’s no surprise that Alexandria cast her caretaker, sister Evelyn, as the princess in the story because she expects her to fall in love with the bandit (Roy in her mind).

When we first met Evelyn within the story, she was wearing a red robe with lotus flowers running down the front and a red and white lotus headpiece that has a two piece curtain covering her face. The color red has many contrasting meanings, but it’s mostly associated with passionate love or danger. The association with love is immediate, meanwhile we don’t get the dangerous implications until much later. At first meeting, she plays an oblivious damsel in distress that makes the bandit go in her rescue, appearing heroic and painting him in a romantic light. However later we learn that she wasn't actually being held captive.

The lotus in her costume also has polarizing meaning. Lotus flowers usually grow from muddy, “unclean” water yet the flower itself is beautiful and often white. Its symbolism is related to purity, surviving adversity and rebirth. The lotus is meant to represent purity at this point in the story because that’s how Alexandria sees Evelyn, even if we already know that she has a relationship with one of the doctors. But to Alexandría she is a nun, her caretaker, she is kind, etc so that makes her the perfect candidate to fall in love with her bandit.

At the same time, the lotus functions as a metaphor of being a beautiful distraction from the muddy water, unpleasant things yet unknown. The head piece is white with red tips giving an illusion of a pink lotus. The pink lotus is said to represent beauty and rebirth, but I believe it serves as another point to illustrate her deception, because it makes us see something that is not there.

Once she opens the curtain covering her face, it creates a vague butterfly shape, an important symbol in the movie that we see across various moments. It symbolizes metamorphosis, and while not synonymous to rebirth it is notorious that this ensemble contains two symbols that evoke a meaning of transformation.

In Greek mythology, the lotus is a symbol of pleasant drowsiness that leads to forgetfulness, as is seen in the Odyssey. In the context of the movie this could represent that perhaps Roy harbored hope to forget his heartbreak and have a new lover (or maybe that is Alexandria's hope for him).

The next time she appears, she wears a lilac dress with two white doves perched on her body. The lilac color of her dress is associated with early love, which leads us to believe that perhaps she does have feelings for the bandit and their love is just beginning to bloom. As the scene progresses, however, we see the white doves fly away from where they are resting on her arms. In Greek mythology, doves are the sacred animal of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and their white color once again symbolizes purity. The doves flying away from her represent that she had tentative romantic feelings for the bandit and renounced them, which is punctuated by how she intentionally scares away the second dove. Perhaps further meaning could be drawn from the flowers in the bodice of the dress but I don't recognize them.

The next time we see her, its in the weeding scene. She appears in a dress with wide sleeves once again evoking butterflies’ wings. The headpiece is beautiful and yet is the hardest piece to interpret. The beading creates a veil that evokes similarities to many weeding traditions of different cultures without being faithful to any of them. However, it also has a similarity with the escoffion hat, a popular headpiece of the upper-class ladies in the Middle Ages that had a bicorne shape and in modern media has been used to represent evilness because of its resemblance to horns (Maleficent is an example of this).

Some other things that I would like to point out from this scene are that the hall is filled with dancers in white and blue. Wearing something blue is a western weeding tradition (something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue) that represents a bride’s loyalty and fidelity to her husband. However, it is not the bride we see wearing blue, signalizing how she has already betrayed him.

Lastly the movie let us know that Alexandria doesn’t like the priest and throws oranges at him. The priest appears in a headpiece that attempts to create an imagine of innocence through evoking angel wings imagery and yet his face looks uncanny and creepy, a sharp contrast to how he appears to be out of the story; probably a reflection of Alexandria not liking him.

As the priest is the one who ends up betraying them however, we can also see the headpiece as “victory laurels”.

In her last scene, Evelyn wears an orange tunic and her hair down. Orange as a color can have different meaning depending on the shade. Brights and lights oranges as well as the fruit itself, are used to represent positivity, enthusiasm and youthfulness. This is important for Alexandria, because it’s a constant symbol shown to be associated with her. In turn deep shades of orange represent deceit. For "the princess" to come out of a chamber in dark orange, almost like she is wearing sleeping clothes, give the illusion of being caught off guard by being discovered in her deception. In the same way, her hair being down and out of any updo or headpiece (unlike any other scene before) evokes the feeling that she has been laid bare and can’t hide anymore.

Because we see the story thought Alexandria’s imagination, the simple outfit she wears (compared to the others shown before) reflects her disappointment with Evelyn as well as her understanding of Roy's feelings, who was heartbroken and resisted all Alexandria’s efforts to turn the tale into a love story.

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The Fall (2006)

[sailorsally]

I keep seeing a lot of new people are discovering The Fall (2006) after it's become available on Mubi and I love that it's finally getting the recognition it deserves (still my favourite film of all time) but also it's been such an intimate cinema secret amongst me and my closest friends all this sudden hype feels a bit weird

[picspammer]

Googly googly googly, begone

[will-ruadh]

starting The Fall (2006) at 12 am was a mistake because I did not allow for crying time