The Falls

I've read other reviews of this film and I have to say, the negative reviews are trite. IT'S AN INDEPENDENT FILM! Production quality isn't on par with a multi-million dollar film, but the actors portraying these flawed people are believable. Isn't that what we actually look for in any film? I have watched all three of these, back-to-back more than once because I like crying and this story makes me cry. I really can't say which of the three I like the most since all three touch my heart, and I sincerely have cried during all three. I accidentally saw the first installment then got up, after going to bed, to watch the 3rd. I will watch them again, 1-2-3.

The Falls explores the Mormon Faith and it's relationship to gay love when two male missionaries develop feelings for one another.

The depth of research and the excellent acting by everyone involved makes this movie a "must buy" DVD.

The dialog was real for what is a very sensitive topic. I hope that people of the Mormon faith can see that special care and respect was taken towards their religion. However, the movie does point out the unnecessary conflict LGBT Mormons must go through.

Jon Garcia is an amazing talented director and I look forward to seeing more of his work in the future.

The Falls is a simple and bittersweet tale of two young men from the LDS church who are partnered in a mission. How could the higher ups of the church know that they were partnering two latently gay men trying to sexually define themselves. When the passion bursts forth it does is explode. It tends to that the longer you are in a closet.

Nick Ferucci and Benjamin Farmer are the two missionary elders who've been assigned to Oregon for their duration. One thing this film did not show is the fact that these missionaries don't necessarily do their two year hitch in the same place. You might be assigned Buffalo for six months, Brooklyn for another, and then finish up in Birmingham, United Kingdom. These two were lucky they had enough time to find themselves. And find an awakening sexual experience that was deeply satisfying.

I feel for these kids, they've lived a sheltered existence in a cocoon of a church. For Mormon Elders I always try to be nice to them making it clear I don't believe in their doctrine and I'm not trying to get in their pants. These young ones will eventually become the old ones who will get the timely revelations to change that doctrine. There was a scene where the two kids were invited to a person's house simply to be berated. I'd say the berator had more issues than these two latently gay young men did.

There was another scene where some redneck homophobe thought them being too affectionate and got a nice beat down for his troubles from Ferucci. He had reason to hate Mormons and gays in his mind. Our older Mormons starting with Mitt Romney forget that they were once a most persecuted people in the USA and world wide.

Lastly a free spirited friend they made played by Brian Allard after they've tasted of love gives them a taste of marijuana. Allard is a disabled veteran from Iraq and makes Ferucci and Farmer truly rethink a lot of paradigms they've been taught to accept.

Though Latter Days also about Mormons and homosexuality is a more widely known film, this one has a lot of merit and should be better known.

There has never been a movie that has resounded so perfectly as this one had. As I am writing this, I am currently a 16 year old boy and have undergone so much strife, pain, and heartache just from living, more than the average 16 year old should ever have. In "The Family: A Proclomation to the World" they clearly state over and over that marriage between man and woman is a sacred covenant ordained of God. This had to be the greatest cause of my lack of faith in the church, even though I was born and raised in it. The teachings of the evilness of homosexuality, a part of someone that is neither chosen nor even wanted in most cases, led me to think that there was something wrong with the church since I had to pretend to be someone I'm not all for the sake of not wanting to be looked at with disgust or shame. It is truly a hell to have to grow up trying hard to be someone else, that I don't even know who i really am anymore. Since I found out I was gay, and as everyone else around me started maturing, it grew increasingly harder to socialize to even the closest friends I had, since I was lying to them about such a huge, unforgettable part of me. As a result, it is because of this forced fake lifestyle, I believe it has caused me to be the socially awkward person I am today. I honestly believe that if I could have been honest with my parents and everyone around me and been encouraged to be who I am from the start, I would have been able to have developed better basic socialization skills as well as a better faith in a church that I grew up in. I'm sorry for the excessive length of this, but I had to express myself somehow, since I can't say this to my own mom. Thank you if you actually read this...

At the time of writing, "The Falls" has an IMDb rating of 5.6, which in my experience means the movie is barely worth a watch. Fortunately I ignored that score and had the pleasure to watch it last night. The two main characters are beautifully sweet. We get an insight into the strange world of the Mormons – two young men sent off on their mission to spread the word. It was interesting perspective, I wondered if many of the scenes of the missionaries being brushed off (as we all tend to do), were in fact real.

In any case, the main story is about the developing bond between the two young men, while trying to disguise the fact that one fancies the other a bit more than just a missionary brother.

Much of the soundtrack uses a slide guitar, which gave it a bit of a Brokeback Mountain feel. It does set the mood however, which I found lovely. I think the texture of the film perfectly captured that feeling of young romance.

There are some funny and wonderful scenes while the missionaries try to convert a down and out pot smoking honourably discharged war veteran.

The lead actors are very good and the pace of how things unfold means there is never a moment where you think the movie is slow. As the film drew to a close I did not want it to end. This is definitely one of the better gay themed movies I have seen recently.