Man Against Wire/Man on Wire

It's Oscar night, and I'm telling you now that the movie discussed below is going to take best documentary (and Slumdog will take every category that it's nominated in--save for Sound Mixing).

Anna and I are now using Netflix. Like blogging, we've come to the party fairly late in the game. Because I love being contrary, I really enjoy messing with their algorithm that determines what movies I'm supposed to like. I will lie to the website and tell them that I hate a movie that I have loved since my eyesight and cognitive abilities met just so that a machine doesn't gain some algorithmic advantage over me. My distrust of technology, however, is rooted in the movies that I've seen. Remember Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? That was the prototypical technology tragedy of the modern age.

If you haven't seen Man on Wire, I suggest you do. The movie is the story of Philippe Petit--a tightrope walker who walked the gap between the Twin Towers in the 1970s. The real fun of the film is the story about how they gained access to the top of the towers. They did not have permission to do this walk, so they are remarkably resourceful in the quest. You will come to love Petit as well, even with all of his quirks.

Editor's Note: I was hoping to get a sweet picture of me crossing a tightrope, but it seems that the right side of my body is much heavier than the left. It's going to take some time to re-learn the craft after so many years.