Beautiful but Boring

Boring, and Beautiful?
you can't say beautiful to something boring..

Apologies for jumping in just about 2 years late, but if you (and apparently many other people) think this movie is boring then you most probably had just completely missed the meaning of the film here. I earnestly suggest giving this film another go like I just did, and believe me I picked up a lot more little hidden gems that I had missed during my first sitting. I love The Fall because I find it surprisingly relatable on the emotional side (so yes it does capture me on a human interest kind of level), but that's just my subjective point of view anyway. Even when you have never experienced desperation and suicidal thoughts from the loss of love and health, I'm sure you can find more than just one layer of depth in this film and just not some aesthetically pleasing yet hollow visuals that a lot of big movies have been providing.
I think the meaning of the scenes have been explained to you through other people's replies - the beautiful and colourful fantasy scenes came straight from the little girl's imagination and I love the way she associated the people around her into the characters of the story because that's as believable as a child's imagination should be. You didn't realise that she began to love the story as it progressed as she kept asking Roy to continue and wept when the characters were killed of one by one (insert some musings about Roy's depression here). In my opinion, the interaction between the main characters are far from melodramatic, it was as pure and genuine as the director could manage (minimal coaching, semi-impromtu were mentioned somewhere), so the child was like a ray of sunlight to Roy's despaired heart - you'd be surprised at how tiny flickers of care and love can spark up the will to live in some of us! How pure the little girl character appeared to be with all of her loss and emotional scars I will never know.
This movie dealt with the subject of suicide brilliantly without being overly depressing, and the stunning cinematography is just the (amazing) cherry on top for me personally; I'm just disappoint that so many people couldn't see anything past it - in a way it's just like lazy reading when you give up trying to understand a book because it's too much work to read between the lines in order to form your own interpretation. The funny thing is I really enjoyed Eternal Mind as well; it is a very good and beautiful film yet I didn't find it as touching and genuine, probably because it was so star-studded and raved about that I watched it knowing that it was supposed to be good and deep despite the fact that like the majority of films the emotions and reactions were generally spelled out for the viewers.
Like Clara had put it, surely you can't call something beautiful AND boring - beautiful would be both inside and out, and The Fall is truly beautiful indeed. Hand down one of the best films for me, I love this enough just to log in and reply to your post instead of quietly scrolling through the website solely for review-reading purposes!

I couldn't agree more.
I saw this movie a few years ago and watched it again now to see if I had missed the point.
But my opinion stays the same.
Visually stunning but kind of boring and overly melodramatic. Especially that scene where they both cry. I didn't buy it either.

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Not sure if I would call it boring but when I recently watched it for the first time I was a bit disappointed. For quite a few years people have been telling me that it was brilliant and that I should really go see it. But it did not live up to what I had been hearing about it. Visually it is nice but a bit too artificial and a bit too abstract. The story also never really felt that special and I do wonder if some of the characters weren't miscast. The five heroes never felt like real characters to me and although I feel that Lee Pace is an underappreciated actor I did not think of his performance in this film as being all that good. I wouldn't say that The Fall is a bad movie but it is flawed and probably could have worked better. I will watch it again in due course though because there is definitely also stuff in this film that probably requires repeated viewing.