Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
This is one of those movies that starts in a way that immediately hooks you into a “what is going on” line of thought process. With the annoyingly loud music that doesn’t fit the beautiful mountainous landscape at all. Confusing and off-putting at first, but of course it all makes sense.
While this starts off as an intriguing locked room mystery spiraling into court-room drama, and of course I was thinking along the lines of “did she do it”, it isn’t really that kind of movie. After a while the “murder mystery” wasn’t that important anymore, it was the deeper exploration of how we define personal truth, subjective truth, scientific truth and objective truth. It shows how we can try and pick apart human relationships or peoples inner thoughts in order to understand them, but the result is the opposite. Things become even more muddled when we dive deeper and finding the one an only truth becomes meaningless. We form our own memories and redefine our personal history all the time. What we remember might not be how it happened, but it becomes the personal truth. I feel like quoting a certain Jean-Luc Picard speech.
Rating: 4.5