Harriet Slater in ‘Fall 2: Deadpoint’
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The fear of falling is an elemental one, running contrary to the human desire to conquer heights. Sir Edmund Hillary famously said, “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Scott Mann’s 2022 survival thriller, Fall, is built on these opposing human impulses.Fall 2: Deadpoint (English)Director: The Spierig BrothersStarring: Harriet Slater, Arsema Thomas, Tom Brittney, Virginia GardnerStoryline: Two young women set off to conquer the plank walk in Thailand when a landslide puts paid to their well-laid plansRuntime: 97 minutesIn the film, two friends, Shiloh (Virginia Gardner) and Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) decide to climb an abandoned 2,000-foot TV tower. Shiloh climbs all sorts of scary heights to create content for her social media account while Becky agrees to the join her to come to terms with her husband’s death a year before in a trekking accident. After being stranded at the top of the tower for a few days, Becky makes it down alone.Fall 2: Deadpoint begins with Jax (Harriet Slater) grieving the death of her sister, Shiloh. She meets Shiloh’s friend, Luce (Arsema Thomas), who convinces Jax to accompany her to Thailand for the “plank walk” on Mount Kwan.The plank walk, inspired by the cliff-side trail on Mount Hua in China, is basically a series of rickety planks circling the mountainside at 4,000 feet (double the height of Fall’s 2,000 foot TV tower) and ending at the scariest, flimsiest bridge over a yawning canyon. At the end of the walk is a statue of a dragon that promises to “eat your fears”.
