PRETTEH.

[kjpepper]

Non spoilery reasons why The Fall was amazing:

1. Guh. This is one of the PRETTEHest movies I've ever seen. Just the colors alone are jaw dropping - like I could have taken off my glasses and found the resulting blurs of rich to almost the breaking point of saturation color as satisfyingly gorgeous.
   
   
2. Where did they find that little girl? I kept wanting to snatch her out of the screen and nom her cheeks.
   
   
3. All right, lostcircuit, you're right. Lee Pace is yummy. I'll take 2 please.
   
   
4. Holy crap it had ketjak in it! Ketjak is one of the more awesome forms of vocal music ever. And it's really really hard to explain... I guess what it sounds a little bit like is a drum circle attended solely by a choir of male Balinese beatboxers. (A smaller example with percussion can be found on DVD and on demand episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender, over the end credits.)
   
   
5. It quite accurately captured the experience of telling and being told a story, down to the occasional inconsistancies and frequent randomness that comes of spinning a tale on the fly. There are also rather jarring reminders that what the storyteller sees as he tells the tale may be vastly different from what the listener imagines.

It's a pretty amazing movie. Twee in parts, unexpectedly, blackly hilarious in others, a bit slow with the plot occasionally but it doesn't even really matter as there's so much to distract the eye while you're waiting to get whacked in the sensories with the next beautiful shot. Well done, Tarsem. Well done.