Man On Wire

This was one of my favorite films we have viewed all semester. It was very engaging and entertaining to listen to and view the mind of a man who was so determined. Due to his crazy and weird obsession with wire walking and the Twin Towers it made you want to keep watching and listening to him because he really was so crazy. It is amazing to think that him and his team were ever able to actually pull of setting up something like this. As we talked about in class i still am left puzzled as to where he got all the money to constantly be planning this event and how he seemed to have all this spare time to just wire walk in a field all day. It would be interesting to know more about his childhood and his parents to see if any of it had an impact on his obsession with wire walking and what seems to be finical freedom. The ending of the film was very sad. It was sad to see how emotional many of those who helped him were in reflecting on the past. They were the major part of why he became famous and in the end he dropped them after using them to accomplish his goal of walking the Twin Towers. The actual production and filming itself was very good. Its amazing that they had actually footage filmed during all the actual planning and events that took place. It makes you wonder why all of a sudden all these years later this film has been made. There must have been an original plan do to something will all the footage, but once he split the group up and ditched them for fame those plans were also forgotten and lost. Overall very interesting film on a topic which may seem very boring and weird.