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This movie is beautifully done and worth seeing. Highly recommended. Don't read this if you haven't see the film and are going to.
I could not watch the film until today and only on my iphone because my vision of the WTC is seeing them with the gaping holes and the fiery flames jutting out of them before heading back home to sit with a neighbor watching on TV as they collapsed.
Maybe we are all him whether we realize it or not walking a tight rope because for any of us --- at any moment the journey may end.
Phillipe Petit got a happening ending.
Not all of us do as well walking our live's invisible tight ropes along our enigmatic journeys minus the beauty, genius, courage and the unseen angels that must have been on site evoking Win Wenders film "Wings of Desire" as Petit dances the wire between the WTC towers.
I was urged to watch this by an amazing LOVING soul and teacher shortly before I was to have my life radically changed and be the victim of violence at a medical office.
My teacher told me at the time way back when her little son a small child had a best friend a little girl who died and the film is dedicated to her. She is the tight walker I call dancer's daughter. (See excerpt below...).
When she told our class I had to bite the inside of my cheek to not cry. How do you explain to a child there best friend is no longer there. Very sad.
The film is powerful and heart breaking for those that remember 9-11 although thankfully 9-11 is never referenced. The film is a beautiful telling of an amazing feat not to be duplicated. We were betrayed by so many who painted themselves as heroes including Giuliani and after him Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn...the views of NYC in this film look some how extra beautiful...a City of Soul, a city that lost it's soul under Bloomberg Quinn.
Watch the film.
It did cost Petit his friendships that were the reason he succeeded and achieved his dream. He is so unaware of his actions hurting friends because he was enjoying visceral sex celebrating his achievement and freedom from the Psych Ward after being arrested by the police. Ironically he got lost in decadence post his miraculous walk on the wire more a dance as close to the Heavens.....
I cried....to lose a child unexpectedly to a brain hemorrhage and so young is shocking.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/he-walks-the-line-1-1381405
This movie is beautifully done and worth seeing. Highly recommended. Don't read this if you haven't see the film and are going to.
I could not watch the film until today and only on my iphone because my vision of the WTC is seeing them with the gaping holes and the fiery flames jutting out of them before heading back home to sit with a neighbor watching on TV as they collapsed.
Maybe we are all him whether we realize it or not walking a tight rope because for any of us --- at any moment the journey may end.
Phillipe Petit got a happening ending.
Not all of us do as well walking our live's invisible tight ropes along our enigmatic journeys minus the beauty, genius, courage and the unseen angels that must have been on site evoking Win Wenders film "Wings of Desire" as Petit dances the wire between the WTC towers.
I was urged to watch this by an amazing LOVING soul and teacher shortly before I was to have my life radically changed and be the victim of violence at a medical office.
My teacher told me at the time way back when her little son a small child had a best friend a little girl who died and the film is dedicated to her. She is the tight walker I call dancer's daughter. (See excerpt below...).
When she told our class I had to bite the inside of my cheek to not cry. How do you explain to a child there best friend is no longer there. Very sad.
The film is powerful and heart breaking for those that remember 9-11 although thankfully 9-11 is never referenced. The film is a beautiful telling of an amazing feat not to be duplicated. We were betrayed by so many who painted themselves as heroes including Giuliani and after him Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn...the views of NYC in this film look some how extra beautiful...a City of Soul, a city that lost it's soul under Bloomberg Quinn.
Watch the film.
It did cost Petit his friendships that were the reason he succeeded and achieved his dream. He is so unaware of his actions hurting friends because he was enjoying visceral sex celebrating his achievement and freedom from the Psych Ward after being arrested by the police. Ironically he got lost in decadence post his miraculous walk on the wire more a dance as close to the Heavens.....
rather than be humbled he tumbled losing two People that loved him deeply still causing his best friend to cry and I felt his tears and their love for him still.
I cried....to lose a child unexpectedly to a brain hemorrhage and so young is shocking.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/he-walks-the-line-1-1381405
"The neighbour with whom he watched the events of September 11 is painter Elaine Fasula. Petit and Fasula had a daughter, Cordia-Gypsy. "We created a masterpiece," he writes. He takes me to his beautifully ordered workroom in the basement and shows me a wall in his office papered with photographs of his daughter, an enchanting little sprite with her father’s impish looks.
At the age of nine-and-a-half, the child he named after the cords that support him and his Gypsy-like lifestyle fell ill. "She was wonderful, witty, rebellious, then a volcano erupted in her brain," he says. He’s vague about her affliction - a cerebral brain haemorrhage - and exactly when it happened and where. She died in 1992 and her ashes are buried in the columbarium of the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in New York City, which was struck by fire at almost the same time as the terrorist attacks. He is artist-in-residence at this, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world. Over the years, he has carried out a dozen wire walks inside and outside the Episcopalian cathedral, which he believes is imbued with Cordia-Gypsy’s ethereal presence. When the fire broke out, Petit was distraught."
