Man on Wire

Man on Wire was one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. The story had everything: love, trust, friendship, adventure, fear, etc. I'm still in awe of seeing this man walk inbetween the World Trade Centers partially because it's an amazing feat, and partially because these landmarks build to represent world communication are gone.

I recently went to New York City and visited Ground Zero. It was strange to me to see the intial construction of these towers because what I saw a few months ago is also construction, but of a new monument. It made me imagine that space with these towers, and it also made me consider how big the void it left it in the city.

I thought the film did a good job of illustrating not only the dream to walk on air, but how each person in the process was involved. They were each characterized so thoroughly that I feel it was a story about the crew too. I really enjoyed that fact.

In general, it was a film about dreams and what happens when they are fulfilled. I also found it interesting that once this mission was accomplished each member in a sense went their own way. They had reached a high point, and they said it was beautiful to leave it that way. Always to be remembered. It was time to move on to a new dream, a new life.