The Fallen Idol

When an innocent boy sees his hero commit what he thinks is murder, the world he lives in changes. Now he must find the truth in what he has not seen. He has to piece together the reality of the moment when a woman fell to her death. He cant trust anyone or anything but maybe he has only seen half of the story and maybe we have only seen half of the story.

A hero is a idol as yet unfailing. This is thought with which Greene and Reed constructed this film. In cinema the view or the way we see is so paramount that we forget what it is like when we lose this ability. The removal of or obscuring out of essential details can create a unique problem for viewer. Suddenly you have to fill the gap with perceptions and they are at the best of times flawed. This film is a remarkable work by its very insistence on the viewer doing the work. Doing just what we often do not do in the cinema. The building up and construction of events that we are not given the chance to see. Take Blow Up, a film that shows an event as a still image and then we build. This shows the event by stops us seeing the essential moment. Watch it and see how you will have to make a decision. Did he or didn't he do it? Magnificent.

DVD is filled with great content. Interviews open up the film and give it a great unravelling. Ayoade is funny and tender in his idol worship. Brownlow is the star however and this is a must watch. Superb all-round.