Tuesday, December 18, 2012

man on wire


I enjoyed the movie man on wire. I like the idea that a man who was tight rope walker saw objects or buildings around the world and his mission was to walk across them. How many people on earth can say “I walked between the twin towers.” Only one person ever in history can say that. He truly is one of a kind. The years of training on the tight rope while having his friends tug and pull on the rope to create a real like simulation of what could happen when he is up there. This man and his friends where truly dedicated to do this. The risked their lives trying to accomplish these acts and spent some time in jail for it as well.

They created fake lives in an attempt to get to the top of the tower with success. They waited under a tarp, motionless, for hours on end to string up the wire. At one point Philipe was naked searching for an arrow so that he could find the string attached to the end to pull the wire across and when the wire was slacked between the two towers his friends spent hours of hard work trying to pull it back up. The dedication it took from all of these people to make one thing happen is incredible. This maybe the only thing they are remembered for and it’s sad that the towers where destroyed because they were a symbol of what they did.

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