The combination of black and white pictures and color pictures is the characteristic of the documentary. The interview pictures in the first part of the documentary are black and white pictures, including the preparation work before going to the building, the tension of the people on the road and the memories of previous exercises. The film becomes depressing and heavy, and the audience can quickly enter the film at the beginning, rendering the atmosphere, making the tension and incredible performance in the film to the extreme, and making the audience sigh that it is difficult to walk a tightrope. Can know why this skill was not allowed at the time. In the second half of the documentary, the picture turned into color, which is also called the content of the picture, indicating that they successfully completed the tightrope walk in the Twin Towers. When recording the whole process, the black and white viewers have a strong sense of substitution, which makes the documentary more authentic and documentary. The language of the camera lens is also very well used in the documentary. The close-up of the coffin at the beginning shows the tension of the protagonist and the strong inner impact on the viewers. It is also a praise for the spirit of the following group of people who are not afraid of death and have the courage to challenge. . Using a large panorama for the picture of the Twin Towers when they were completed, the terrifying height of the Twin Towers was fully displayed in the picture, which also paved the way for the difficulty of the protagonist to walk a tightrope in the later article, and it is not easy to pave the way for people's voices. The director has used the subjective lens many times. After the protagonist hides behind the curtain and observes through the hole he made, the atmosphere is improved again, and the viewers who enter the film can feel the tension together with the protagonist. The director is also very clever in the use of music. In the scene of the Twin Towers, he uses a heavy but admired music for the building.
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