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FREE SOLO (2018) Grade: B+
A fascinating documentary — even if you know nothing about rock climbing, it pulls you right in. It’s inspirational without feeling forced, and the filmmaking is absolutely stunning.
The cinematography captures both the beauty and the terror of climbing, and if you’re afraid of heights, it’ll have your stomach in knots the whole time.
A breathtaking mix of artistry, athleticism, and pure human will.
Free Solo (2018) Review
Free Solo (2018) Review
Alex Honnold attempts to be the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan, a 900m vertical rock in Yosemite National Park. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)
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Alex Honnold’s girlfriend Sanni McCandless grooms him before his historic climb of El Capitan in Yosemite, documented in Free Solo (2018).
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Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.
A thrilling doc. You get wet hands just from watching.
Nevertheless, I was thinking about more than once to stop watching.
Honnold certainly comes across as being rational and very aware of the risks. And I can see how it makes a (mental) difference to do it with a rope or without.
But once he starts climbing again soon after an injury, and when you listen to the athletes, as they recall how many other free solo climbers they were familiar with who have died, you still to question their judgement. You can't help but thinking that it's not a question of if, but when a free climber will have a lethal accident. If you can do it with a rope multiple times, why play Russian roulette with a slightly higher number of chambers?
And to phrase it provocatively, just as the director and helpers ask themselves, by watching the doc, do you become complicit if he dies? A tiny little bit?
From that perspective, I prefer Tommy Caldwell's achievement chronicled in The Dawn Wall.
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Film Review: Free Solo
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