Movies
The Fall Guy: You’ll Believe a Man Can Fall
Jumping out of a plane without a parachute, jumping from one building to another with a car, one person beating up thirty people…
I’m not a guy who expects too much from action movies. They’re enough to keep us entertained while we sit back and eat our popcorn, to showcase crazy things that no human being can do in real life and to raise our adrenaline levels. Jumping out of a plane without a parachute, jumping from one building to another with a car, one person beating up thirty people…
These are things that are impossible in real life. But part of us secretly wants to believe in these movie tricks and immerse ourselves in the magic of cinema.
This movie tells the story of people who made this magic a reality. There are indeed people in cars jumping from one building to another. They are called stuntmen.
For the first half of the movie we watch a very good stuntman lose his job and his girlfriend because of an injury and then he tries to regain what he lost. It’s a story that we can all relate to.
Later in the movie, Colt (Ryan Gosling) returns to his profession for his ex-girlfriend Jody (Emily Blunt), who is now a director and trying to make her…
