TAKING THE FALL Film Review — College Reunion Gone Awry

In no time the dining room is full of laughter and banter. They each update on their lives since graduating from college. Tyler laughs along, interested in what his old friends have been doing since he’s been gone. The banter soon turns into complaints of Corporate America: they all hate their jobs. 

Every morning, they get up just to survive. They sit at desks all day. Their jobs have nothing to do with their majors. The real world is cruel, they say. Tyler’s face changes to a state of discomfort. He doesn’t understand how they could say these things.

He suggests that they quit their jobs since they don’t like it. It’s simple, right? There’s a pause. The friends look around, then suddenly burst into laughter. Tyler doesn’t get the joke. That’s not how the real world works, they say. 

At least they got to experience the real world… 

Tyler was stuck in a box for six years.

TAKING THE FALL Puts Gratitude In Your Attitude

“How does it feel to be out?”

“What are you going to do now for work?”

“No scars, no tattoos. You did pretty good.”

“You don’t look like someone who just got out of prison.”

Tyler hadn’t seen his so-called friends and years and this is how they greet him. He took the blame for stockpiling 20 pounds of weed so the rest of them could run free. In return, he’s forced to socialize with these ingrates who had caused his imprisonment. 

In Taking The Fall, Josh Marble exposes the privilege of millennial society by contrasting it with the lot of an ex-convict. He creates a slow build-up to the inevitable tension between the friends, and it only gets worse as the liquor abounds.