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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 424146" data-attributes="member: 23">Fall (2022) <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwallpapercave.com%2Fwp%2Fwp11525175.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ecd456844d511da78004de3a8cd398b61e0b3b5d5f98412ab2f1498369ece6f2" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 686px" /> Cut to me watching the film, and simultaneously asking why I would do that to myself.Honestly, though, I wanted to watch it. I even sought it out. When I watched Frozen last week it's because Fall was still pay per view on Prime (something I always resent doing when I pay for the service anyway). Then, last night, I realised Fall was on iPlayer, ad-free and rent-free. How could I not?I agree with this 100%. I kept having physical reactions. Not only was my heart racing and my palms sweating, I found my stomach churning occasionally. And the funny thing is, it's not always the shots I would expect to do it. Many of the overhead shots were quite terrifying, but it was all so subjective I felt as though I was there with them, and out of nowhere there would be a wave of anxiety at the realisation of where they were. Even when the height wasn't being shown, I felt sickened just by knowing we might be shown it at any time.I thought the best element was the suspense. We know what could happen, and it invariably does, but each time a character suggested something risky, I found myself getting really anxious at the thought of what we were about to be put through.I lost count of the times I turned my head away and curled towards the back of the sofa, or uttered foul expletives at the screen over the ordeal worsening and the fact that I was now stuck in it... because I needed to find out what would happen.My main mixed feelings were over the sub-plots. I understand the recovering from trauma angle, which increases the stakes (the fact that the lead character is afraid of climbing after an incident where they watched someone fall to their death is lifted straight from Hitchcock's Vertigo). But the plot with the significance of the tattoo (1-4-3) felt too soapy and risked diluting things. There's already enough drama going on, and I don't feel the film particularly needed this.When done well, this "mimimalist" kind of survival film is really impressive for continuing to build the stress and ratchet up the anxiety. Half an hour into the film, I began to think that watching them go up the tower might be the most difficult part. But it kept getting worse and worse and worse.Last night, when things got bad, I kept counting my blessings that I wasn't watching this on a huge IMAX screen in 3D (and in public, to boot).One little detail I noticed last night was the apparent sunburn on the lead character's face as the film went on. But yes, I'm surprised it wasn't much more serious given the location.I was curious about this last night and found this on Wikipedia, citing the source as the "Making Of" on the Blu-ray:</blockquote>

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