The Fall (2020)
The Fall
”A masked man is hunted by a sinister mob in a nightmarish allegory of social violence.”
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Jonathan Glazer created an incredibly engaging and frightening narrative in just 7 minutes. Masked people are seen planning an execution without a single word being spoken, yet the story still develops. Each viewer can take away a different interpretation of 'The Fall', which was inspired by Spanish painter Francisco Goya's painting 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters'. Glazer knows how to create an atmosphere of discomfort, something he had already shown in his movie 'Under the Skin' starring Scarlett Johansson.
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In his sinister short film, director Jonathan Glazer distills the uncanny manhunt of 'Under the Skin' into a hellish allegory of social violence. A masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man in this nightmarish film.
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