#thefalling

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What the hell did I just watch?....... Before we get into that mind bending delusional movie, let's get the facts straight:

Movie : The Falling

Director: Carol Morley

Writer: Carol Morley

Rating: 3/10

Okay, so let's get the plot. We follow 2 young girls in a British Private school - Abigail Mortimer played by Florence Pugh and Lydia Lamont played by Maisie Williams. These two best friends have what might be a sexual friendship, but it's never disclosed, but their relationship is definitely something that feels inappropriate, also their age difference is apparent. As we see them live, It becomes very clear that Abigail is the girl everyone wants to be. Lydia on the other hand is lost in a dark spiral and she holds onto Abigail to keep her grounded.

Abigail starts to grow and experience life in such a way that is going to leave Lydia behind, and they both realize it. Abigail has just lost her virginity and is no longer the "young naive" girl from the day before, sex is changing how she views life, it's driving her with desires that have just been unlocked and Lydia doesn't quite understand why. Lydia becomes jealous and angry, as if she needed anymore reason to be hateful (her mom won't talk to her and her "dad" walked out many years ago, not to mention her POS brother who has sex with her. ..... I'm telling you this is a kind of fucked up story.)

Let's get back on track, Abigail gets pregnant from her first time and starts to faint and have really bad symptoms because she's losing the baby. And then one day she passes away, and that again isn't every disclosed why or how we can just assume it has to do with the baby, a life lost too soon RIP. After the loss of her best friend, Lydia starts to faint - she starts making up a sickness that is similar to Abigails.. She even convinces the other girls and even a teacher in the school that everyone is sick. We all know that it isn't real.

The story ends with Lydia's brother having sex with her, and in the middle of the creepy sex, the mom who seems to be out of it, storms in, pulls him off of her and kicks him out of the house. We then find out that the mother was raped and the reason why she can't even look at her daughter is because she looks just like the man that raped her. Lydia then loses it, climbs to the top of a tree and jumps in the water. We close the movie off with the mother and daughter holding each other and crying accepting what has happened to both of them.

The idea of this story is a beautiful story of discovery and aging and life, but it only comes together at the end. Half-way through the movie you think to yourself, "Is it worth it to finish this movie?" There are dream sequences and in multiple scenes it flashes - LITERALLY FLAHSES FOR A SPLIT SECOND - back to Abigail. These flashes just make the movie confusing and are totally unnecessary. It's like Carol was trying to be artistic, and make it more mysterious. The storyline is beautiful enough without all the weird flashbacks.

I will say though, the casting was great! Florence Pugh did a fantastic job in her cinematic debut and Maisie Williams really broke away from her GOT character. Also, Joe Cole made a huge impression and shit human coming from the sweet kid brother in the Peaky Blinders.