Let Me Fall follows two girls Stella (Eyrun Bjork Jakobsdottir) and Magnea (Elin Sif Halldorsdottir) when they are teens then at a second stage in their mid-thirties. At the outset, Stella is more experienced alongside her boyfriend drug dealer. Magnea is 16 young and fresh faced. She's hanging with Stella and her boyfriend because she thinks that they are cool. Her parents are divorced but give her a long rope to do just about anything she wants. One day Stella offers Magnea a fix believing that she can handle it. We then jump forward to her older in her mid-thirties to haltingly learn that she couldn't.
Director Baldvin Zophoniasson based his story on true accounts of drug addicts in Iceland and their families. The narrative brings home how bad the need is for addicted people to fix. They will promise anything, lie, cheat steal and betray to secure that next fix. Stella and Magnea will take any pill liquid or any other form of drug that they find, crush it, put in a spoon light it and stick it in their arm. This is no more evident than in the most disturbing act of betrayal between the two that sends one of our protagonists to a place where the viewer thinks she has to have reached bottom but later realizes that she was nowhere close.
Magnea starts out as a fresh faced promising student looking for a thrill to a hardcore addict hiding in the shadows in the worst sections of her town. The older Stella (Lara Johanna Jonsdottir) who cleaned up after a prison spell is warned by her boyfriend to stay away from the person that she got hooked on hardcore drugs. Ultimately Stella can't, feeling a mix of love and guilt forcing herself to reflect back on her then escalating mistreatment of her now lost friend that she is in the end unable to deal with.
**** Out 4
Let Me Fall | Iceland / Finland / Germany | 2018 | 136 Minutes.
Tags: Addiction, Robbery, Hypodermic needle, Reykjavik, Rio De Janeiro, Smuggling, Pornography, Rehab, Overdose, Carbon Monoxide.
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