Walking a tightrope on the twin towers of the World Trade Center is unprecedented in every sense. Whether he and his friends or the viewers of the documentary realize it or not, this incident is not directed inward, or even has nothing to do with the tightrope walker Philip, this is not a personal biography or self-fulfillment, to be precise He has no need to give an answer, his act is the answer itself, and the answer is in everyone's hands. Walking the tightrope itself is a kind of meditation. When he is on the tightrope, he is a "superman", for which God also bends, and when he walks off the tightrope, he is an ordinary imperfect human being. A kind of separation, but also an extremely interesting contrast. The documentary filmed this contrast, but unfortunately the audience did pay attention to his personal side of ordinary people, and led it to a kind of "self-transcendence". This is an unintentional misreading of the documentary itself. One more thing, no matter where the tightrope takes place, it has a strong performance, which is determined by its own nature, and this extreme performance plus the extreme venue (Notre Dame de Paris, Gemini The tower...) is multiplied by the extreme artistry, which itself (and even its preparatory preparations) is a work of art that exists only in the place of the time (or era). Not to mention that the Petronas Twin Towers and Notre Dame de Paris left our era in an unpredictable way. From this perspective, the "tightrope walk" seems to have fulfilled what should have been a prophecy on a larger time scale?
In the end, I don't know why, I think this adaptation into a movie will be very in line with Weiss' style and temperament? (I am randomly thinking)
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