Liang Dongfang
A French adventurer, a man who specializes in tightrope walking at high altitudes, goes to walk the twin towers of New York, USA.
Walking on a narrow steel wire in the air of more than 400 meters makes the audience who only saw this scene fearful. Under this visual display of heights, the film is also a psychological stimulus, and also explores the philosophical question of why life is. Whether the audience sees this kind of philosophical question or not, they must have seen the 400-meter altitude of the abyss under the feet of the male protagonist on the wire rope. In terms of visual experience, the film does not hesitate to shoot repeatedly at this most brilliant angle, raising the audience's tension to the point where it is too breathable to dare to look at it again.
It intuitively shows the fears in life, the fear problems that life may encounter, sooner or later, will encounter, and even accompany it in a visible image way. It is both a real story and a metaphor, a symbolic example.
How to focus on one's own things and continue to push one's own things forward to achieve the purpose of "imagination"; how to overcome fear and anxiety and deal with others and the world in the process relatively naturally and peacefully is another matter. Only when these two things are handled well, and both are well measured, and do not make them insufficient or excessive, can they be perfected in the ultimate state of life.
Fear and anxiety are the meaning of human nature, and if there is no word, it will cause harm or even danger to people; too many words will also produce harm and danger. Where the degree of rationality lies, it is in the continuous summarization and accumulation of experience in the process of our lives. Only after repeated attempts or cringe or too late will you understand where your suitability is and how to achieve it.
The protagonist actor of this movie is called "囧Sef" by Chinese audiences, saying that his facial features are a bit "囧" meaning, according to the female expert comments after the film was broadcast: he is not a big handsome guy. Actors who are not big handsome also have advantages, and can make the role closer to most ordinary people who are not big handsome. Luthof was American, but played the French pie vividly. The film also deliberately contrasts American culture and Americans with French culture and French people, and some of the bridges are too much to be false, but they are just comic-like performances of people's exaggerated impressions of The French. For example, the scene where the male protagonist gets up in the middle of the night and wields a hammer in the corridor to nail his own coffin.
It is said that after the filming of the film, the French actresses who played his girlfriend praised the French he learned in a short period of time as a Parisian accent. However, I think that the body management of this ordinary-looking actor is very much in line with the general aesthetic and pursuit of the French; as a high-altitude performance artist, there is no room for a trace of extra flesh, and only a person with a lean body and a sharp body can walk on the ground, and the audience needs to use a telescope to see the high altitude! This is his professional requirement, and it is also the basic degree of integration of an actor for the role. This is both pleasing to the eye and instructive for the audience: people with goals, people who have been working hard to achieve their goals, will have human beauty, including the beauty of the body.
Such lace such as accent and figure added to the talk of the film, and later 911 made this film with the twin towers as the main background, an accident and an eternity to commemorate the two buildings.
It is precisely from this positive and negative aspect that the Twin Towers have become the symbol of the Era of the United States, or simply the symbol of the United States, as recognized by both extreme sports challengers and terrorists. Crossing it and destroying it became their respective options. Although both violated local laws without permission, the objective publicity and display of the roof crossing is far more valuable than the tyrannical destruction. It is precisely in the sense that art needs to first conform to the common interests of mankind and conform to the good customs and customs that it can achieve the most basic meaning.
From this point of view, the film that records the crossing of tall buildings is as much an act of artistic beauty as it is about crossing tall buildings themselves. Whether it is visual stimulation, challenging the limits of human fear, or asking about the value of life, they are all the meaning of human beings living on this planet with interest. After there are no more twin towers, it is already interesting to look at this movie that was set in the past.