Philippe Petit in 1974 challenged the same time, for 45 minutes and with a single action, the laws of New York City, common sense, friendship and severity. A feat, a madness, an act of rebellion. A little of everything, all at once. Those who lived at the time this event could feel something strange, different, indefinable, a mixture of awe, admiration, fear. Petit's feat caused a cluster of sensations that hatch on its viewers in many different ways, choosing to disregard in some cases and to the total admiration in others. Thirty-seven years later, this cluster of feelings is able to reawaken in people like me have the chance to live hand experience of director James Marsh and his incredible documentary film Man on Wire .
Released in 2008 and based on the book's own Petit To Reach the Clouds, says swiftly, through the testimony of his own players (and Weird drama), planning and execution of the deed on (among, rather) the Twin Towers of World Trade Center . In the course of this story know how the project was conceived from the beginning (A schedule worthy of a good scientific experiment), and assist in disbelief, a creative process out of all the artistic "people." Philippe manages to create original paintings in motion, its image, a fierce look, all concentration, moving slowly through an almost invisible line joining two towering structures (the towers of Notre Dame in Paris, the Sydney Harbour Bridge ) and carrying a very long rod, can not remain indifferent. The challenge turned into something tangible. These images, including a series of stills, seasoned with the sublime songs of Michael Nyman and Josh Ralph, stir well as the history of the man whose dream is impossible, unthinkable, senseless, but not stopped trying to make it happen. An inspiration to anyone who has ever wanted anything in life.
A master balance, did stumble a few hours the fragile balance of conservative and submissive American society, which took longer to understand what moved the man to do something similar.
almost forty years ago Philippe Petit proved that even the wildest dream can be performed. That the mere fact of having no purpose, no apparent reason, no justification (the danger and the many risks that outweighed stunt the potential reward ... personal satisfaction? Some pictures bold?). From that crazy idea developed something big, very big. Symbolic. I never thought that a person walking on a steel cable could be considered art. But on the sofa in my house, watching TV, I excited seeing the same man leap from the chair moved, remember to look down from a height of 450 meters, where no man has come to be (and again, value added to the achievement and images) just by the mere fact of saying "I do that, not going to let me do it, but I'm going to do." He knew he did not hurt anyone, that would break rules that could only hurt him, and that all who chose to participate were free at all times to let it go, not to interfere. Many
esperarÃais put me to ramble about the physical implications of the challenge of the tightrope walker, from a scientific standpoint. One could speak at length, and no doubt seeing the documentary is fascinating how you can master your own center of gravity with simple tricks. But the impression the film made me was higher compared to the feeling of rebellion - a rebellion almost innocuous, but absentia after all - which follows the story. I think a lot lately that we are living a kind of illusion of freedom, it seems that we have been convinced that the protest is not a feasible way, we show violent anti attacking the police and make us believe that there is no more peaceful, more safe, more effective protest when something happens around us we do not like.
From the same couch in my house every day I see injustice in the world I live. It is not very different from Philippe. We could say that is more advanced, technologically superior, more democratic, more free. But every day we see around us clues that it is not. That we have won in some ways as it receded in others. We lost a lot more because we do not know what we can do or not, against whom shall we go when we complain. Which rules can be broken, what values \u200b\u200bare worth defending, who benefit from our "rebellion." Philippe also rebelled against anything or anyone in particular, just felt I needed to do something and that something, that would be dangerous or illegal, it was worth because he did not hurt anyone. Obviously, one could argue if this feat was actually quite safe, if you can break a rule set simply because we do not make sense. And therein lies the question: if we are so convinced (I tend to be) that the laws and rules are unbreakable and necessary to build a stable and just society ... To what extent can we change this society when clearly something is wrong?
I can not draw a conclusion from all this I can only say that Philippe Petit decided he wanted to cross over a wire between the Twin Towers, and he did.
And I, day after day, I sat on my couch.
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