‘Fall for Me’ Ending Explained – A “Romantic” Happily Ever After For Everyone Except the Audience
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS
Fall for Me is a tale of two sisters, both idiots, who find themselves ensnared in a sexy scheme to defraud them of an expansive inherited estate. It’s an extremely dull movie, and very little happens in it until the ending, which is cobbled together through haphazard editing and attempts to deliver some kind of romantic payoff. It’s all a bit silly, but luckily, we can make fun of it together.
The essentials are as follows. Valeria has suddenly become engaged to Manu, whom she has been plying with money for the medical treatment of a fictional sick sister, and Valeria plans to sell the estate she and her sister, Lilli, inherited from their deceased mother in order to fund a joint business venture that is clearly a scam. Lilli realises all this is deeply suspicious, but becomes smitten by Tom, another deeply shady dude who can’t be trusted. The climax is all about the inevitable confrontations stemming from all this, including Tom’s unexpected face turn; such is the power of his sexual chemistry with Lilli.
When A Plan Comes Together
I don’t want to overwhelm you with too many names and references out of the gate, so here’s the gist of things. Both Manu and Tom are working for Nick, a crooked real estate agent running a scheme to defraud wealthy women who visit Palma. The reason he needs to work two angles is that both Lilli’s and Valeria’s signatures are required to turn their ancestral property over. He has a complicated scheme for turning the estate into a luxury resort – after wildly underpaying for it – but doesn’t anticipate Lilli being tipped off by Bea, one of Manu’s former victims, about the fact that he’s a swindler. Pretty soon, Lilli has discovered that Nick, his wife Girasol, Manu, and Tom are all in on the con together.
As the sisters become gradually more suspicious, Nick and co. attempt to accelerate the timeline to get things done and dusted as quickly as possible, which predictably causes things to go wrong. Lilli refuses to sign the papers, despite Valeria already having done so, and Valeria discovers Bea’s dead body, so it’s clear that something is afoot. Lilli and Valeria compel Tom to help them confront Manu, but when Valeria does, she’s kidnapped and taken to some cliffs to strong-arm Lilli into signing the estate over.
Tom Saves The Day
Tom, having now completely changed his ways, convinces Lilli to sign the papers in order to buy a bit of time, which he uses to accost Manu and jump into the ocean with Lilli and the documents. Prior to this, he had already alerted the police, and they turn up to arrest Manu and Girasol. Tom, rather nobly, claims he’s going to turn himself in for being a part of the scam, which I guess we can assume he does, but either there wasn’t much evidence against him or he decided against it at the last minute, since in the one-year-later epilogue, he’s very much free. Lilli has turned the estate into a bed-and-breakfast, and they’ll presumably live happily ever after.
This is a happy ending of a kind, one that Fall for Me is obviously proud of. But it leaves pretty much every plot thread beyond Lilli and Tom’s romantic status unaddressed. We don’t even know how Tom is free, let alone what happened to Nick and Girasol. Presumably they’re in jail?
I suppose the bigger question is whether or not any of this really matters. I’d argue it doesn’t, since in such a dry movie, the inner workings of the Palma police and a potentially inefficient judicial system hardly seem worth the effort of thinking about. There’s an extremely simple point being made here, and it’s this – even very tame sex can cause people to act like total idiots. That’s a life lesson of a kind, if nothing else.