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What’s worse: your father commits suicide because his family life is too miserable to bear, or your mother kills your father because they can’t stand each other anymore? This question isn’t immediately posed to the audience in Anatomy of a Fall, but it becomes the central dilemma our emotional surrogate—a blind teenager played by Milo Machado Graner—faces at the film’s climax.
The scaffolding that props up this conflict makes this courtroom drama a great one. The difficulty of balancing marriage and artistry, partnership and parenthood, pleasure and stability—all these themes give the death that kickstarts the story profound (and I don’t use that word lightly) meaning. Whether you see yourself as the child, the wife, the husband, or the dog, you will leave this movie affected in some way.
*Still wondering how they pulled off that scene with the dog. Not a flashy scene in terms of special effects, by any means, but the more I think about it, the more I’m impressed. Movie magic!
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