Man on Wire Review

Background:
1) Provide a brief background of the film.
Point of view:
2) From what point of view is the documentary speaking? What perspective is it offering on the event?
Conventions: (Elements that are common to movies and how they are used)
3) Does the film use voiceover, reenactments, archival footage, interviews?
4) Does it rely on one convention more than another?
5) Why does it use the conventions it does?
Structure:
6) How is the documentary structured? Does it follow chronological order? Does it use a different order?


1. This man wants to pursue his hobby of walking on tightropes at great heights. This documentary describes his journey of transforming this hobby into a career and the difficulties he came across while doing this daring act.
2. The documentary is taken from the point of view of the performer and often gets the insights of both him and his accomplices as they are going through the story. It gives the viewer a sort of idea about what they were thinking while they worked.
3. The film combines actual footage from the past with interviews and some reenactments and some current footage and voiceovers.
4. I feel like the interviews and voiceovers are a bit more prominent than the other conventions but all are used pretty often.
5. The voiceovers and interviews allow the people to go through what they were thinking at the time without interfering with the act as it was going on in the past.
6. The documentary goes back and forth in time by starting with the beginning of changing his hobby into a career and then goes into the walking across the wire between the world trade centers followed by how they broke into the twin towers and how they set it up.