Aesthetic Realism In Man On Wire

Man on Wire is a documentary/ biography directed by James Marsh and starring Phillippe Petit. The documentary is over a Frenchmen (Phillippe Petit) that had a strange obsession and interest in tightrope walking. He started out tightrope walking just in his backyard; he built building like situations with a wire in between to get the actual feel of tightrope walking. Phillippe Petit was born in 1949 in Nemours, France, at the age of sixteen is when he discovered his passion for hire wire and spent over a year training in his backyard. Phillippe Petit first major high wire walk was on top of Notre Dame while a huge ceremony was going on just inside. Petite then went to high wire walk the Sydney Harbor Bridge. These tasks were too simple for Petit. So, one day he was reading the news paper and there was an article on the World Trade Center being built in North America. An idea struck immediately in his mind and he was not going to stop until he completed this idea of his. He spent years planning his walk from the top of one tower to the top of the other twin tower all along side of some friends that helped him pull off his previous impressive stunts.
In this documentary there is plenty of Aesthetic Realism. Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy founded by poet and critic Eli Siegel based on three core principles. The first is the biggest impulse of …show more content…
The truth about the world is that we always need someone or something to entertain in a way to keep us busy and on our toes. “Man on Wire” shows us just that. This film was created to show the world that anything can be done if you put your mind to it. It shows humanity not to give up so easily but to persevere through and past the hard times we all go through. This film was a wonderful way to display bravery, heart, dedication, hard-work and even