'Man on Wire' is perhaps my favourite movie. It crackles with charm and authenticity - exuding the kind of beauty that movies rarely even approach.Petit's idea of a beautiful death, and a beautiful life, is so very compelling because it speaks to a passion that is as rare as his singular accomplishment pictured above.
Deviant, madman, clown, icon: Petit draws an interesting cast of characters around himself, yet he remains a "castaway on the island of his dreams". That too is one of the film's great takeaways: sometimes the most iconoclastic and aberrative behaviour is the most universally savored.
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