movie review - Fall
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
At some point, perhaps around the time I became a parent, I developed a strong aversion to heights. Not much of a showing for a guy with pilots all over the family, but here I am. So it was with some trepidation that I agreed with The Girl to watch a movie about two young ladies who climb an abandoned radio antenna for the social media cred, only to get stuck atop the tower. The Girl does like horror and suspense flicks, so I should have known she'd go for this.
The thing grew on me as the characters became more relatable through the lens of their struggle to remain alive. There's only so much you can do with a situation like theirs, of course, but our heroes do some clever things up there. It's not a perfect movie, there are just a few to many morons and utter assholes in this movie that I feel the writers felt were necessary to keep the women trapped atop the spire. But these are offset nicely by the spirit of the leads and the way they come to terms with who they are and what they need to do with their lives. Also, it's not every day that you see an Unreliable Narrator employed to such effect, and I applaud.
Recommended.