Man on Wire (2008)
Originally published at The Last Exit to Babylon. Please leave any comments there.
When I went through and revised how my movie review posts are handled on the site, specifically when I added a page to list them by rating, I realized that I watch way too many awful movies, and have reviewed far too few good ones. So when I sat down to watch Man on Wire on Dustin's suggestion, I knew I finally had something good to write about.
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit set out to do the impossible. He and an international group of accomplices snuck into the World Trade Center to string a wire between the Twin Towers so Philippe could walk across. After years of planning (Philippe had know he had to do this since the day he saw an article about the start of construction of what was to be the tallest buildings in the world), numerous setbacks, and a harrowing night on the roof, they pulled it off. A quarter of a mile above the streets of New York City, one seriously crazy Frenchman walked a two-hundred-foot tightrope for the sheer beauty of the act.
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