The gospel of people with fear of heights, dizziness, sweaty palms, numbness in the legs, all these feelings!
Lionsgate Brings You This Year's "God Film" "Falling".
This film with only 2 protagonists and low cost can not be lower, released for less than 1 month, the global cumulative box office of 8.04 million US dollars, a total of more than 55 million yuan, earning hemp!
Rotten Tomatoes 75% Freshness + 79% Popcorn Index; IMDb scored 6.3; Douban stood firm at 7.4 points, and since its launch, it has firmly occupied the hot search on the Internet.
Obviously, compared with the old beauty of "what scenes have not been seen", the Chinese people are more nibbling on this kind of small-cost high-concept movie.
The 107-minute film, with no urine spots throughout the whole process, challenges the audience's sensory tolerance limit with thrilling pictures.
Is this movie really rumored by the audience to be so "good-looking"? Quality so "cattle"?
Don't worry, today we will talk about this movie.
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The opening of the film throws out high concepts, no nonsense, straight on
Not only The Chinese people, but also the whole world, everyone likes the "high concept".
"The Wandering Earth" makes the earth fly away from the solar system and wander around, is the concept high? Boom!
The protagonist of "Lone Moon" and the kangaroo fall to the moon to face the test of life and death, is the concept high? It's also exploding!
How "high" is the concept of "Falling"?
At 2,000 feet, or 609.6 meters, this is the height of an abandoned TELEVISION tower in the United States.
Located in the California desert, the B67 TV Tower was once the tallest tower in the United States, and even now, it is only 22 meters lower than the Shanghai Tower, the fourth tallest building in the world.
The tower is purely reinforced, and the exterior is brushed with a layer of anti-rust paint, but due to disrepair, it has long been rusted.
Exceeding the limits of use, buried safety hazards, the government is preparing to dismantle them.
However, our heroines, Becky (Grace Fulton) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), intend to conquer the tower before it is demolished.
Playing with life, dying, there is always a reason, and the reasons given by the movie are very sufficient.
Becky, Hunter and Becky's husband, Dan, were originally inseparable "death trio".
Due to an accident during a freehand climbing, Dan fell off a cliff and received a bento in advance, and the surviving Becky and Hunter have since been cast with a terrible psychological shadow.
In order to find herself Hunter, and in order to free herself from the pain of losing her husband, Becky decided to climb the B67 TV Tower together.
Shoot a video and post it on YouTube, suck up fans, suck gold and likes, and use this as a starting point to start a new page in life.
609.6 meters is the height of death for us ordinary people, but for these two in the movie, it is actually a piece of cake.
The film sets these two people as masters of rock climbing, with amazing arm strength, tired of playing with cliffs and cliffs, and just an iron tower.
Cool films have never needed too many plots, and "Falling" only took 15 minutes at the beginning to explain all the previous plots and cut directly to the main topic.
This is really valuable in the same type of movies, which is much higher than the same type of "No", which is also one of the reasons why it is more loved by mainland netizens.
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The protagonist is in danger, tries 7 ways to save himself, the audience pinches a handful of sweat for it, and the sense of substitution in the viewing process is extremely strong
As a film born out of Hollywood's mature industrial model, "Fall" strictly follows the traditional routine of thrillers in terms of structure:
"The first half of the journey was calmly buried with hidden dangers, and the second half of the journey was full of high energy."
Becky and Hunter drove to the B67 TV Tower, found a good place to stop the car, sent a video, and took the backpack and went straight up.
Note that the backpacks had climbing ropes, two cell phones, a drone for selfies, a selfie stick, and water, but "no food" because they were expected to be back before noon that day.
The B67 TV Tower is divided into two parts: a 1,800-foot (548.64 m) steel frame and a 200-foot (60.96 m) antenna.
The two climbed the ladder inside the steel frame and came to a triangular platform.
From the triangular platform, climb up another ladder on the surface of the antenna to another platform at the top of the antenna that is only enough for two people to stay.
Later, they take a selfie on the platform, and Becky scatters Dan's ashes into the sky, and both of them rediscover themselves from this moment on.
However, although the whole process of climbing was smooth, it left three hidden dangers:
1. No food brought;
2. The phone loses its signal on the antenna;
3. When climbing the antenna, several unscrewed screws on the ladder are dropped.
As a result, when the two were ready to climb down, something went wrong.
The ladder could not withstand the weight of people, and most of the nearly 61-meter-long ladders fell.
The antenna became a large iron pillar with no support points at all.
Trapping two people on top of the platform, backpacks containing drones, selfie sticks and water also fell to two large horns in the middle of the antenna.
Since the climbing rope was only twenty or thirty meters long, the two could not follow the antennae to the triangular platform, so the plan they determined from the beginning was very clear - help.
To this end, the two did their best to try multiple options.
Scenario 1:
Send a distress signal with your phone.
But at an altitude of nearly 610 meters, the mobile phone signal has not been covered, even if the climbing rope is used to go down to the middle of the antenna, the text message cannot be sent.
Scenario 2:
Hide the phone in your shoes, throw it down, and hope that the phone will reach the place where there is a signal on the ground, and the text message in the phone can be sent.
As a result, because the TV tower was too high, when the shoes fell to the ground, the mobile phone inside was still thrown out and torn apart.
Scenario 3:
Use the night to fire flares into the sky (find a telescope and a flares gun from the small box above the antenna) to attract the attention of the two strange men below.
It turned out that the two men did see them, but the two scumbags not only chose to stand by and steal their cars.
Scenario 4:
Use the climbing rope to go down to the big horn, retrieve the dropped backpack, and then use the drone in the backpack to call for help.
Hunter volunteered to climb down, the whole process was thrilling, and although he finally retrieved his backpack, Hunter fell to the loudspeaker and fell to his death.
Scenario 5:
Drive the drone to a place where there are people in the town and ask for help from the people in the town.
First, Becky had to climb to the indicator light at the top of the antenna to fully charge the drone.
Becky carefully maneuvered the drone to fly to the town with a small note with a distress message, only to be hit by a large truck passing by at the most critical moment.
Scenario 6:
It was still the same way, throwing Becky's own mobile phone to the ground so that the distress message could be sent out.
But this time, Becky thought of using Hunter's body to hide the phone so that he could avoid breaking it to the greatest extent possible.
To do this, Becky had to get down to the loudspeaker, where she caught and ate a vulture raw to replenish her strength, then climbed up the climbing rope to the horn, hid the phone in hunter's body, and pushed the body down.
In the end, the film ushers in a bright ending, although it does not explain whether Becky's method works, but she is finally rescued.
Throughout the process of watching the film, Pigo pinched a handful of sweat for the two protagonists, the sense of substitution is very strong, the sense of immersion is also very good, worth recalling, and there are many topics that can cause discussion.
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Netizens launched the "everyone comes to find the ballast" campaign, not only looking for bugs, but also supporting the film screenwriter
Our keyboard warriors on the Internet have always been invincible, although most of them have never played this extreme sport, but they still have the ability to support the characters in the movie.
For example, some people have said that the mobile phone is stuffed in the shoes, why not wrap the shoes with clothes or pants, so that the mobile phone is not easy to fall out!
Netizens reacted enthusiastically, and the words they said were not completely unreasonable.
Pigo summed up that the more useful tricks are the following two:
Article 1:
Since there is a long enough rope and backpack, can it be like a coconut picker and an electrician who repairs a telephone pole, and slowly slide down with a rope wrapped around the antenna?
The operation is shown in the following figure.
Article 2:
Instead of letting the drone fly so far to the town with a small note with a distress message written on it, it is better to let the drone fly under the tower with a mobile phone, which can naturally find the mobile phone signal and send the distress message out.
Pigo thinks this operation is very reasonable and very good to operate, but it is estimated that the screenwriter and director did not expect it!
In addition, the plot of the movie has also triggered controversy and reflection among netizens "outside the movie".
Hunter in the film is keen on adventure, filming and recording his own experience of escaping from death again and again with his mobile phone, and posting it online to suck powder to win the attention of netizens.
The hotter her horn became, the more she threw herself into the dangerous sport until something eventually went wrong with the adventure.
There is no shortage of such cases in reality.
Recently, 21-year-old TikTok influencer Tanya Padazzi in Canada was killed while performing her first solo skydive at a skydiving club in Ontario.
Padazzi was the beauty queen of the 2017 Teen Pageant and had 100,000 followers on TikTok, and it's a shame she passed away.
Just this past August 15, 17-year-old Hong Kong teenager Yang Kaijie and 2 friends were playing parkour on the roof of the 17th floor of the Le Dao Huayuan Building in Tsim Sha Tsui, when an accident occurred, they fell from the roof of the Huayuan Building, fell to the ground, and died on the spot.
One of his sneakers was left on the roof of the Huayuan Building, which made the viewers sigh.
Extreme sports include rock climbing, downhill, skateboarding, surfing, parkour, etc., which are full of tricks and are all for life,
Therefore, there are "few foreigners" on the Internet, but in recent years, many people in china have participated in it.
Netizens like what is everyone's freedom, Pigo can not interfere, but still remind you to cherish life, stay away from danger, do not die.
This movie also taught the whole world a lesson.
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However, "Falling" also conveys some profound themes in addition to the thrilling story.
After experiencing the tribulations, the heroine realized the true meaning of life:
Life is fleeting, you must grasp every moment and do something that makes you feel alive.
Although this theme is as simple and crude as a movie, as a commercial film, it is good to be able to sublimate the theme.
Therefore, most netizens have given "Falling" a positive evaluation, believing that it is the most satisfactory thriller so far this year.
At present, the box office of this small-budget film is still rising, as some audience comments:
The movie made with heart is no longer the size, a wave of "tiger" operation, two actresses, to create a "miracle".
This, our domestic filmmakers should also study hard.
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