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At the very beginning, I was influenced by my friend Amway. After I got the resources of this movie, I didn't rush to watch it.
Wait until the wind is not so big now before clicking on it. For me, who is a little afraid of heights, it is already very exciting. If there are friends who like thrillers and adventures, then this is a good news. The only regret of
is that the mainland has not introduced it. I think it will be more enjoyable to watch it on the big screen. Since its release, the film has received fair reviews from various platforms: IMDB score: 6.3, Metascore score: 61, Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%, Douban score: 7.2. Although
is just passing, but if it is put into the same theme, it is undoubtedly the existence of a dark horse.
And it's not easy to get such results in a thriller, so let's talk about some of the surprises in this low-cost, immersive thriller today, how to stand out and get a place in the movie that is blooming everywhere exist.
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How to 'Fall'
It tells the story of Becky ( Grace Fulton ), who loves extreme sports . One year after witnessing her husband fall into the abyss during rock climbing, she still can't let go of the tragedy.
So her friend Hunter ( Virginia Gardner ) convinces her to climb the abandoned TV tower together, allowing her to start over.
After they climbed up the TV tower, an accident happened and the two were trapped at an altitude of 2,000 feet. The ladder collapsed, the rope was not long enough, the mobile phone had no signal and was about to run out of electricity. They couldn't return to the ground from the top of the tower, and there was no way to contact anyone who might save them. The only way to survive is to rely on their own ingenuity.
It is not difficult to find that there are only two important characters, and in the camera, except for a disc that can stand on the foot, there is a 610-meter tower that drives people who are crazy and afraid of heights. On the ground, the entire viewing process is always dizzy, sweaty palms, and rapid heartbeat.
In fact, I have seen a lot of comments, saying that it is not so scary if it is a horror movie, but if it is a high-altitude horror movie, it is really new; among the movies that are also trapped in space, there is the classic work " Shark Beach". " and "Trembling Ocean", when they started their creations in such a small space, it is not the first time that they have been mentioned in the air, and "Falling" still has some small surprises.
If you throw it into an adventure movie, it will remind me of the documentary " Freehand Rock Climbing " in 2018. In fact, many scenes are very similar between the two films, like the previous heroine is also freehand rock climbing with her boyfriend In the process of losing her boyfriend, without any protective measures or auxiliary equipment, playing is exciting: walking in the double world of the bottomless abyss downwards and the blue sky upwards.
was originally an exciting adventure, and ended in tragedy, which also paved the way for the subsequent plot. The reason why the heroine challenged to climb the tower is to let go of the trauma of the past, and her best friend is to Increase your video CTR. When Becky heard the suggestion of climbing again, she rejected it at first. After all, the stress and trauma were still there, and she felt that she would definitely not be able to do it. Later, I convinced myself that the idea was very exciting: to scatter her husband's ashes at an altitude of 600 meters.
Therefore, she can use this move to reconcile herself with herself, and she can also challenge the limit again, and there is still something to gain, so she agrees. But their adventure, although it started smoothly: the two were tied to a 15-meter rope and climbed towards the sky. When they were afraid, they hummed a little tune and joked, and the two of them climbed to the top of the tower very easily, but the test had just begun.
Right after they reached the top, the climax began. After taking some pictures and videos of hanging their hearts and their lives, they were ready to return, but with Becky's feet hanging in the air, they started hanging in the air. When they came up, they were fine, but the screws that had already gone out of work were loose. The ladder has also fallen apart, and everything is like a butterfly effect, trapping them.
In order not to spoil the story, I will not continue to say how they ended, but I wrote this, and I still have a little fear when I recall these plots. After the thrilling scene where people's legs and feet tremble, they can get some healing-like tranquility.
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Feelings and betrayal
The two of them were in the air. On the first day, they were still looking for fun while panicking, and after the disaster, the smiles between friends broke out. Then they adjusted their sitting positions to shoot videos, chat, and open up their hearts. At this moment, everything seemed comfortable, and a truth that had been hidden for a long time was revealed.
The Dan, whom Becky once loved deeply, had already cheated with her best friend Hunter. After this was revealed, it seemed that there was no turbulence, but in fact, undercurrents were surging, and it was impossible not to have quarrels, which actually drove them. Countless possibilities for subsequent actions: How can two people with such a relationship continue to maintain trust? How to help each other down the tower? I have to say that the movie handles this extreme emotion very skillfully. Although the plot is only a little rough, the routines in it need to be full of products.
"The betrayal and suspicion of people in desperation is the final variable."
Although the emotional problems in it are really low-level, it gives enough reversal of the ending. This is not just a betrayal brought by a man, but more between human nature Unpredictable betrayal. When they were trapped at the top of the tower, the first thing Hunter thought of was the 60,000 fans he had on his social network. He updated the network information first, which was very purposeful; Becky laughed and joked: I think it's time to accept the truth, that is Your sixty thousand followers don't care about you. There has been a lot of grudges between them, but it was only magnified because of the derailment incident.
Obviously, the ripping parts in youth movies are just to the point. It seems that the movie does not have too many scenes about the relationship between the sisters. What it wants everyone to see is never such a drama, but Straight to the reverse shot, such as the later 'trick', is to change the roles, but also to change the fate of the two:
"Everyone realizes the death of one of the protagonists, Hunter, which also forced the former into grief and weakness. Becky, who extricated herself, had to save herself."
saw other people commenting on the film, saying that at its core, it was also mixed with the meaning of finding a shadow of self in male society: the ubiquitous authority of fathers and husbands, let Becky Key is in trouble defining himself.
"Analyzing this role, we will find that she chose to marry Dan because of her father's opposition? She loves rock climbing, is it her own choice, or is it influenced by her husband? In life, she really does something for herself Have you made a decision yet?"
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wrote at the end
I read some behind-the-scenes articles about the movie and found out that this movie was actually shot.
Some people say that this kind of documentary-like real horror can be created thanks to the "poorness" of the film: because the cost is not high (only 3 million US dollars), it was not shot on a green screen in a studio, but at a distance of more than 600 meters. On the high cliff, a tower about 30 meters high was built for filming. The tower in the movie is not fictional. Its prototype is the KXTV/KOVR antenna tower. Located in California, USA, the tower is 625 meters high and is the tallest building in California.
In the whole film, it is not difficult to see some top-down shots, and there are many such shots; although there is only one scene in the climax scene, the director uses the editing of different cameras to intuitively show the audience different High visual impact.
This may be one of the reasons why most audiences give this movie a high score. After all, the senses have been greatly satisfied, and then they forgive the film's tasteless and naive plot; because such "language" is almost useless in this movie, "Audio-visual" is the most important and most enjoyable.
"When Becky and Hunter start their real ascent, the director has a firm grasp on the film, creating tension in a very effective way. Then the "fall" stops there and Hunter is given the A secret more melodramatic than realism, vultures and drones are involved, and the movie gets more and more stupid in the final scene.”
watched as a mild fear of heights, although not because of physical Reasons to persuade them to quit, but after scrutiny, in terms of human survival consciousness, the sentence "the strong survive" is not unreasonable.
