"The towers were built for him". As soon as Philippe Petit saw the creation of the World Trade Center, he told himself that he had to dance between the two towers...on a tight rope...and he did. Man on Wire documents the solid focus and determination of Philippe Petit to walk on a tight rope between the two World Trade Center towers.
This 90 minute documentary presents Petit as "this man, who seems wholly self-consumed and unaware of the potential problems of any such idea he stumbled upon and the emotional pressure he was putting on his friends who could have aided his death, speaks frankly even when discussing the aftermath of his stunt - which indirectly ended many of his friendships with people close to him. But despite his own shortcomings, viewers cannot deny Petit as the man who did something that none of us could ever imagine: he pinpointed his dream and he achieved it." (IMDB).
"It's impossible, that's sure. So let's start working." - Philippe Petit
