RE
Saw this film with my fourteen-year-old son and we both loved it. We walked out of the theater really mulling over Petit's courage and hubris. Interestingly, all of Petit's friends--including his girlfriend--find their relationship with him oddly concluded at the end of his greatest tightwalking accomplishment. We talked about how there's really only so much you can ask your friends to do for you. They all helped him up there, watched him risk his life. They all dealt with the feelings that came from realizing that if he'd fallen, they would have also been responsible...I found the film a completely absorbing and unusual portrait of a man who was willing to risk it all for the fleeting memory of being on top of the world for one brief high-flying moment. It is wonderful this film was made at all. And the towers themselves are the lost stars of the whole show. I found that so touching.
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