Wow.Being that I was 12 years old when Philippe Petit accomplished his impossible dream of walking on a wire between the newly constructed World Trade Center Towers , I've always been aware of it as a mission accomplished, never really as the amazing feat it truly was.
Man On Wire has changed that.
In a slightly less than linear way, Man On Wire introduces you to not just Petit but his entire team of accomplices and walks you through the process by which they conceived and executing their daring adventure.
Interweaving old French movie styles with interviews, photos, newsclips and dramatizations, Man On Wire makes it clear how young and quixotic these dreamers were and just how close they came to not realizing their dream.
Watching the construction of the World Trade Center Towers through the prism of knowledge of their fate just thirty years later was emotional. Seeing pieces of steel which would become so familiar to us in their destruction being put into place in the optimism of the Towers' creation was poignant.
Watching Petit and his cohorts bring his dream to fruition was inspiring.
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