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Fall (2022)
Great idea, brilliant technical execution, but weak scrip[t
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This is a very gripping film, and worth watching. The filmmakers did a brilliant job making it seem real and it made me constantly nervous throughout the film.
I recommend it. But I think the script could have been better.
Two women get to the top of a 2000 foot tower and the ladder they used to get up there breaks. I think everybody goes to see this film for one reason: to find out how they get down. And the answer is not too great.
I think people are disappointed in this film, despite its amazing production values, because we want the two characters to get down on their own. They just try to be rescued.
The two characters have a lot going for them. They have climbing experience and are in very good physical shape. They are daredevils. It all comes down to coming up with a plan.
After all the swinging wildly around hanging on ropes, at the end of the movie, the heroine--who is practically comatose at this point--rappels down to a lower level like it's nothing. Maybe there are other things they could have done. They only needed to get halfway down-- to the armature. It would be smooth sailing from there. There are many things the two of them could have tried if the writers had provided them with enough tools to make it at least a "Hail Mary" effort. If it comes to doing something crazy or dying, what do you do?
Even if it is improbable, it's better than not trying. Yes, it's important to try to be rescued, but you have to be prepared for that not happening. And if you wait long enough, you'll definitely die.
No matter how great the premise is--it has to lead somewhere. And this doesn't. But kudos to the production team for pulling off the impossible task of making this look so real. There's a ton of talent here. Work harder on your scripts, or find somebody else to write them, and there's no limit to how far you can go.
Få meg på, for faen (2011)
Of course Helene Bergsholm's parents were told about everything Helene Bergsholm did in the film
I don't know what to say about Minnie Long's comment that Helene Bergsholm hadn't told her parents about the scenes she plays in this film. She obviously thinks she heard it.
As the US publicist, let me tell you what happened in fact: when Helene was offered the role of Alma, director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen met with her and her parents in a hotel to have them read over the entire script, and, as Bergsholm was underage at the time, to give their consent. As anybody who has worked on a film knows, the film could never have been released without a signed document from the parents. It is very serious business what you depict sexually with minors on screen. And in particular, somebody like Helene, who is not a professional actor.