What does "the fall" mean to me?

On instinct it screams literally falling over. However, when i consider this phrase in a lot more depth - similar to silence it can have a lot of meanings and generate a lot of very different ideas.
A film called The Fall (2006) directed by Tarsem Singh follows the story of an injured stuntman telling a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale proceeds. The intriguing thing about this film is that not only is the storyline interesting and very clever in the way it's thought out, but the content of the shots are breath taking.

In this film, the theme of the fall represents a physical and mental decline due to events affecting the characters. The injured stuntman physically falls from a bridge whilst shooting a film and this incident leaves him paralysed; which then takes its toll on his mental stability as he becomes depressed and wishes to commit suicide.
For me, this is the most extreme execution of the fall as it could result in death however i find it interesting and feel it could open a lot of doors when considering a story for my film.