An Unhindered Passion

Personally, I found the documentary to be an amazing documentary, capturing the richness of details on the insider story of an incredible feat. The documentary does a good job capturing Phillipe’s passion, boldness, determination that cannot be hindered by fear, death, police. Even from the beginning of the film, I found it interesting that Phillipe’s dream first dawned upon him in a dentist office where everyone else seemed gloomy, and he was fascinated by the building of the Twin Towers. He even departed from the dentist and smuggled the magazine with the Twin Tower out of the dentist office, giving up his appointment, claiming that a toothache can’t compare with a feat across the Twin Towers. The film does a great job building up the suspense and the chain of events leading up to the performance day and I really like the scene where Phillipe was hiding in the upper floors for hours because they hear a guard and then they decide to move and the guard hasn’t left and the guard was literally staring at them. I became very anxious for them at the moment and I can’t believe that made it out without the guard catching them. The whole plot itself was just incredible, especially how much thought was planned. For example, observing the Twin Towers and the different people at different times and the elevators, making fake IDs, to find a way to get past security and not look suspicious, as well as shooting the bow and arrow to get the wire from the top of one tower to another.