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Morphine Dreams

The Fall: Adventures in Drug-Addled Babysitting

If contemporary kids’ movies are to be believed, children’s imaginations are glib, computer-generated videogame-scapes, full of skateboarding giraffes and wisecracking sea turtles. Alongside Guillermo del Toro’s recent Pan’s Labyrinth, Tarsem Singh’s The Fall refuses to countenance this candy-coated version of a child’s brain—taking us instead to a darker and far more interesting place. The Fall […]

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