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warrrreagl · 05-04-2010, 06:20 AM

Before the Fall – 10/10

Whatever you must do to see this movie, do it. This is the most incredible movie I have seen in a very long time. It is a 2008 movie with the original title of Tres Dias, and has been renamed Before the Fall for American audiences. It is a Spanish movie set in a small village in Chile, and the version we saw has English subtitles.

There is not any way possible for me to convey the breathtaking suspense of this movie. I imagine that if Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock could see this movie together, they’d probably both look at each other and say, “Holy shit, this is one suspenseful motherfucker of a movie!”

The incredible premise of the movie explains all you need to know: the world learns that a meteor near Earth has broken into several planet-busting pieces, and all of humanity only has three days left to live before impact and the total annihilation of all life. During the ensuing global chaos, a prison breaks down near a small Chilean village, and a horrible serial child-killer escapes and makes his way back to the village that caught him and ended his spree several years earlier. And he wants brutal revenge on the family of the boy that turned him in. The family knows he’s coming, and the adults try to prepare to defend their isolated home out in the sprawling countryside while making the decision to NOT tell the children that the world is ending and that a madman is on his way.

The unbelievable dichotomies in this movie are so juicy that you won’t be able to turn away. On one hand, there’s all the drama associated with the impending apocalypse, and all the tragedies associated with a total breakdown of society while this poor family is trying to hide and disguise everything going on around them from their children. The kids clearly notice all the goofy lights in the sky, the odd pillars of smoke rising from the nearby village, and the fact that TV and radio reception is fucked up, but the adults somehow maintain the illusion that everything is perfectly normal. And then on the other hand, there’s the weird situation of people fighting a killer with tooth, nail, and claw for their very lives while knowing that they’re all expected to die anyway within three days.

It’s just a mind-blowing, intensely powerful movie experience.

05-04-2010, 06:20 AM	#3814 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Before the Fall – 10/10 Whatever you must do to see this movie, do it. This is the most incredible movie I have seen in a very long time. It is a 2008 movie with the original title of Tres Dias, and has been renamed Before the Fall for American audiences. It is a Spanish movie set in a small village in Chile, and the version we saw has English subtitles. There is not any way possible for me to convey the breathtaking suspense of this movie. I imagine that if Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock could see this movie together, they’d probably both look at each other and say, “Holy shit, this is one suspenseful motherfucker of a movie!” The incredible premise of the movie explains all you need to know: the world learns that a meteor near Earth has broken into several planet-busting pieces, and all of humanity only has three days left to live before impact and the total annihilation of all life. During the ensuing global chaos, a prison breaks down near a small Chilean village, and a horrible serial child-killer escapes and makes his way back to the village that caught him and ended his spree several years earlier. And he wants brutal revenge on the family of the boy that turned him in. The family knows he’s coming, and the adults try to prepare to defend their isolated home out in the sprawling countryside while making the decision to NOT tell the children that the world is ending and that a madman is on his way. The unbelievable dichotomies in this movie are so juicy that you won’t be able to turn away. On one hand, there’s all the drama associated with the impending apocalypse, and all the tragedies associated with a total breakdown of society while this poor family is trying to hide and disguise everything going on around them from their children. The kids clearly notice all the goofy lights in the sky, the odd pillars of smoke rising from the nearby village, and the fact that TV and radio reception is fucked up, but the adults somehow maintain the illusion that everything is perfectly normal. And then on the other hand, there’s the weird situation of people fighting a killer with tooth, nail, and claw for their very lives while knowing that they’re all expected to die anyway within three days. It’s just a mind-blowing, intensely powerful movie experience. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.