{"id":213,"date":"2008-07-03T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2008\/07\/03\/the-fall\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T03:25:07","slug":"the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2008\/07\/03\/the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefallthemovie.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/images\/TheFall.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have an art-film theater in town, the Bijou. If <a href=\"http:\/\/thefallthemovie.com\/\">The Fall<\/a> is playing anywhere near you, go see it. A visual treat, the story is also immersive and the acting is top-notch. A story-within-a-story kind of experience, it reminded me of one of our favorite books, Momo by Michael Ende. It also has hints of Alice in Wonderland and other fantasies where a child is gradually drawn into a story-world and the events in the story mirror the teller and hearer&#8217;s real life. A young girl, in the hospital recovering from a broken arm (she fell out of a tree when picking oranges with her displaced\/migrant family) becomes friends with a young stunt actor, bedridden after a fall from a railroad bridge during the filming of a silent &#8220;flicker.&#8221; (it&#8217;s 1915.) Roy tells Alexandria a fanciful story, full of exotic scenery and colorful characters. The intensity of the action mounts to a brutal climax (be prepared for violence!). The best part about the movie was the sweet, mischievous little girl. The part I liked the least was the wrap-up &#8211; it was quite abrupt. But overall it was a rich entertainment and a refreshing change from the American blockbuster fare we get in the mainstream theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have an art-film theater in town, the Bijou. If The Fall is playing anywhere near you, go see it. <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}