Man on Wire

Okay. I mentioned this in my last blog as a highlight to my weekend. Well my broseph does the whole blockbuster movie deal, and he decided to go with a documentary for one of his recent rentals.

Man on Wire is a documentary about a wire walker who attempts to walk between the World Trade Center's twin towers. I know right? It happened in the mid 70s. The general layout of the movie is two stories...one focuses on the actual Twin Towers story, and the other is the story of how he got to that point.

It was kind of bittersweet because some of the documentary covered the construction of the towers (not in detail). It was weird to see the actual construction of the buildings that are now gone.

Here's the actual summary per IMDB...

On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.

Anyways, if you are looking for a good documentary, I would definitely recommend this one. It was very interesting, and apparently it won best documentary in 2008. The trailer is below.