The answer is so simple, yet so simple that it is passed down as immortal.
I believe that there are always some burning beings in this world, like Mallory, like the hero Philip of this film, the one who lives and dreams on a tightrope. Although they have different personalities, one is restrained and the other is flamboyant, but they can do the same things that ordinary people can't understand, and say the same words.
--because it's there.
This is a manifesto for all dreamers. Regardless of nationality or skin color, there is no reason and no explanation, because "it" means the whole meaning of life.
When this unassuming, slightly neurotic Frenchman said this sentence in broken English, I was deeply shocked and moved by him. It turns out that a dream can seem to start in such a sloppy way, like a passionate love, a fate, but it takes our whole life to be infatuated and pursued.
France has given Philip all the romantic genes and fire-like enthusiasm. "From the very first step on the tightrope, he dreamed of being a man who could conquer wonderful heights." So when this thin, ill-mouthed 13-year-old boy stumbled across the World Trade Center one day in the hospital newspaper News of the mansion, he said he "suddenly froze" and he immediately realised he was going there, that was where his dream started, that was all he was. Even at that time, the Twin Towers were still only a project under construction.
So there is a daily practice of Ren Er's east-west north-south wind, a walk in the sky of Notre Dame de Paris, and a variety of deeds in the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Those actions that are downright absurd in the eyes of others have made him step by step to the top of the world. All this, so outrageous but wonderful.
August 7, 1974. 104th floor of the World Trade Center. A conquest plays out here.
It was misty that day. Philip finally fixed the rope, facing the sunshine of the newborn, and took the first step to fulfill his dream. For that moment, he had been waiting for so many years, and all the pain, rejection, and betrayal he experienced during this time, I think it has become lighter at this time. But we still can't really understand Philip, like we've never experienced the tremors and beauty of being on top of the world. There, only he and his own wonderful.
When Philip reached the middle of the ropes of the twin towers, he suddenly stopped, knelt down on one leg, and prayed to heaven. At that moment, the girlfriend who silently looked up at him in the crowd cried. It was she who accompanied Philip to this day and watched him complete his dream step by step. She understands him, understands his madness and wantonness; she also loves him, loves his persistence and desire, loves his dream that only she can understand. Now his dream is in sight.
At this moment, Philip sat on the rope, and lay down slowly, as usual, he liked this lazy and comfortable position. There were bursts of panicked screams from the crowd gathered on the street, who didn't know what was going on, and didn't believe that a person could face such a height so calmly. Philip didn't care, he slowly closed his eyes, letting the noise under his feet slowly drift into the wind, and the sun from the new birth gave off a warm smell on his body. I think this time, he must be able to hear the singing from heaven.
Philip succeeded. The success was both logical and terrifying. In him, I saw a texture of life, like a kite flying in the wind, the blue sky stubbornly embraced, and the end of the line is always firmly in my hand. He said his story was like a fairy tale. Indeed, he was the little prince who never grew up, and he didn't know what compromise was, and he didn't know what was enough. He only knew to "plan the next prank" and insisted that "life should be on the verge of danger."
Perhaps it was God's blessing to him, giving him a fanatical and arrogant heart, at a certain moment in his life, He will make everyone look up, see him hiding in the clouds, see him at ease, and look aloof.
Finally one day, he really became our king.
I once saw a saying: When you know where you are going, the whole world makes way for you.
Philip was like that, he knew where he was going, so he saw heaven that none of us have ever seen.
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