The Walk (2015)

If you've seen "Man on Wire", a very trendy documentary several years ago, you know what to expect in "The Walk". A biopic about the wire crossing of the twin towers in New York done in 1974. Author: Philippe Petit, a French guy with some experience in "the field" and lots of guts to try it out. I don't have time to write, so I'm sorry but I'm gonna stick to the essence of this: the story always seemed to me to be the perfect example of unjustified selfishness. Even just for the fact that the guy got into the whole illegal action a bunch of friends to help him do it. There's also the risk itself = to put your life at stake for the glory of a couple minutes show with an ad-hoc audience ... for me at least that's again a form of selfishness. The documentary I mentioned, very appreciated by the critics, made my opinion even stronger. The movie tough ... managed to achieve something that I wasn't expecting. To make me give a second thought about this. What if, when you try something crazy, you have somewhere a certain feeling that will work out ...

One last thing, checking out the current "peaks" in cinemas: Those towers might have been like 20 times shorter than Everest, but the movie is somewhere at 5 classes above ;) the 3D and all the rest ...

Rating: 4 out of 5