{"id":40421,"date":"2023-07-22T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40421"},"modified":"2023-07-22T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:16:32","slug":"fallen-the-search-of-a-broken-angel-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/22\/fallen-the-search-of-a-broken-angel-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen: The Search of a Broken Angel (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have to say I liked a lot of what director Alex Kruz brings to the table in terms of a film that\u2019s very much about fate, and purpose, and existence. While \u201cFallen\u201d can be tough to follow in its first few minutes, Kruz does manage to really catch the audience up. \u201cFallen\u201d wears its influences on its sleeve, relying a lot on spirituality to punctuate what is in its core a tale about love and finding love.<\/p>\n

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Set in New York, Sam Ares lives life as a carefree soul but in his dream he encounters the same woman several times. He can\u2019t forget her even though he doesn\u2019t know who she is or what the connection is. Sam journeys to the places where he thinks his dreams and visions point him to, trying to find out his purpose and connect the puzzle pieces. Meanwhile a young woman, Kristina, draws Sam\u2019s face from her mind\u2019s eye as she feels his torment. She doesn\u2019t understand who this person is in her drawings. As they constantly find themselves in the same places, they begin to wonder if they\u2019re missing part of themselves outside of their dreams.<\/p>\n

Director Kruz opts for a very unconventional and non-linear storyline where protagonist Sam Ares spends most of his time sleeping with various women and hoping to find meaning in his encounters. Through all of this he\u2019s haunted by dreams of a gorgeous red haired woman who beckons him. A lot of \u201cFallen\u201d is placed on Sam Ares\u2019 quest and what he has to ultimately come to terms with in order to reconcile his spirituality with coming of age. There\u2019s a lot of focus on Sam\u2019s trysts and how they\u2019re ultimately nothing but hollow experiences when all is said and done.<\/p>\n

One encounter involves his meeting with a shallow woman who hopes to keep Sam tied down with a proposition. Ultimately I wish we\u2019d seen a lot more of Kristina\u2019s character arc, as she appears every now and then but only serves as an instrument to Sam\u2019s awakening more than anything else. She felt very under developed. Also the ADR is rough around the edges at various points, as the dubbing is either muffled or uneven in tone. I was convinced \u201cFallen\u201d was a dubbed foreign film at first until I finally caught on. That said, director Kruz is a very good visualist and \u201cFallen\u201d is a good film, especially if you\u2019re into spirituality and concepts of fate and destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to say I liked a lot of what director Alex Kruz brings to the table in terms of a film that\u2019s very much about fate, and purpose, and existence. While \u201cFallen\u201d can be tough to follow in its first few minutes, Kruz does manage to really catch the audience up. \u201cFallen\u201d wears its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[335,501,874,906],"class_list":["post-40421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-experimental","tag-indie-film","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40424,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421\/revisions\/40424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}