The Fall is a visually spectacular movie: breathtaking cinematography, and beautiful colours and costumes. Still, that isn't all it has to offer.

The movie has two storylines: the realistic setting where a girl with a broken arm meets a suicidal stuntman (Lee Pace) in the hospital, and the world of the story he starts to tell her. Though the stuntman develops a fondness for the girl, the reason he tells her the story is to trick her into getting him morfine so he can commit suicide. The story he tells her is chaotic and ever changing and though some people may not like this, I thought it really represented how spontaneous storytelling works. The boundaries between reality and fantasy become increasingly blurry because of the girl's interuptions and as the movie goes on the story starts to reflect the stuntman's life. At one point he asks the girl whether she is trying to save his soul and that really captures what this story is about. There is no reason for running away screaming from such a cheesy theme because it is handled in a moving but surprising way.
Lee Pace was amazing playing the suicidal stuntman but the heart and soul of the movie was the little girl. Their interactions had me going through a rollercoaster of emotions, moving from laughing to crying in a matter of seconds.
This story will stay with you long after the movie is done.