I haven’t been this moved by a film (and all I’ve seen so far is the YouTube trailer!!) - since the final 30 minutes of The Shawshank Redemption.
“Man on Wire” tells the incredible, true story of Philippe Petit’s 7th August 1974 highwire artistry on a 3/4 inch steel cable suspended between the two World Trade Center Towers in New York.
Take a look at the trailer and see if your palms aren’t sweating and your heart not singing by the closing words - one of the most beautifully simple reasons for living I’ve read for a long while:
“See every day as a true challenge - and then you live your life on the tightrope.”
There’s a delicious irony in those words when set alongside what Philippe is reported to have said when repeatedly asked why he performed that crazy stunt:
“There is no why.” 
While he and his team did break many laws in the process - and the police were pi##ed off, to say the least - from what I’ve read so far, no one was harmed in his miraculous display of performance art.
I really hope ‘Man on Wire’ makes it to Japan - at least the book’s on Amazon.
Have a ’soaring’ weekend!
- Mark McClure
PS - Magnolia pictures have a web site here: ManOnWire
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