With college came my first opportunity for total self-actualization. But, as higher education gave me a supervised test run of adulthood, I realize now how much of my past excitement of growing up was blind to how much I’d miss my youth and the simplicity that came with it. 

As "Anatomy of a Fall" unfurls, the film itself becomes a clinical investigation of our own scrutiny. The tight, vérité-style structure of the film allows the audience to become acutely aware of their status as spectators. And like cinema vérité, the film takes a solely observational role in the telling of the story, giving the audience no more information than the jurors.