Man On Wire, By James Marsh

Firstly, it is important to understand how the documentary form is best suited to illustrate the film’s theme. In order to do this, one must have an overview of the documentary style of filmmaking. Documentaries concern themselves with the “exploration of

A famous short story, “The Quiet Man,” by Maurice Walsh, tells the tale of the protagonist, Shawn Kelvin, who must come to a resolution both internally and externally throughout the story. Shawn experiences a rollercoaster of up and downs during the story, around the 1950’s in Ireland. Shawn finds the women of his dreams and he marries her, but her brother, Big Liam O’Grady, is the man of the town. Traditionally, dowry is given from the bride’s family to the groom's family. Shawn has no respect from Big Liam O’Grady, or the town. Shawn wants to receive his respect from Big Liam O’Grady and love from Ellen. Shawn is willing to do anything for her, even it comes down to a fight. Shawn fights himself and others, internally and externally, to

People are different in many ways. Ranging from colour of their skin to their ethnic backgrounds. How society copes with these differences is what defines prejudice and discrimination. Racism, social class and ethnicity have become a never ending cycle that begins to shape the opinions of how people treat one another. The novel The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini revolves around a society constructed around two socially diverse ethnic groups the Pashtuns who practice Sunni Islam and the Hazaras who follow Shia Islam. Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, a variety of characters have made decisions that affect the overall outcome of the novel which base around ethnicity, race and social class.

The novel The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is the story of a young, upper class boy by the name of Amir and his friend, a lower class boy named Hassan. While Amir is a Pashtun and a Sunni Muslim, Hassan is a Hazara and a Shi’a muslim, which causes the main conflict between the two. Amir and Hassan learn more and more about their social status, as well as their personal friendships and problems as they grow up in Afghanistan.

To kill a man is to take away everything he has, and ever will have; and in War, death is inescapable. Vietnam War veteran Tim O’Brien was drafted to fight in the War in 1969 and states in the book as his “character/narrator” self that he attempted an escape to Canada out of fear. But the stronger fear of people being ashamed of him took over and had him turning back to home to enlist in the U.S. Army. O’Brien published The Things They Carried in 1990 and explored the physical and mental realms of war-time combat with stories. These stories are based on his own experiences, but they include a fictionalized version of himself as “the narrator” and are said to only be what felt like the truth rather than being the actual truth. Despite this, the intention of these stories are to give readers the understanding of what it was like to be a soldier fighting for their life and country overseas. In the chapter “The Man I Killed”, the narrator tells the story of a man he killed outside the village of My Khe who was “a citizen and a soldier” of Vietnam (119). Although this man was the enemy, O’Brien’s character displays how ending another’s life in battle is not an easy pill to swallow. O’Brien, the narrator, uses repetitive descriptions, vivid and gory details, and his glum emotional response to the fatality he caused in the chapter to illustrate how feeling responsible for another man’s death can have traumatic effects on the mind.

War is a constant in the world we live in. Wars are fought over people, land, religion, ideals, and freedom. A prominent war in America's history is the Vietnam War, which took the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians alike and neither side wanted to keep the violence going. “The Man I Killed” by Tim O’Brien explores the psychological effects of someone in a war setting. While “Military Service, Exposure to Trauma, and Health in Older Adulthood: An Analysis of Northern Vietnamese Survivors of the Vietnam War” by Kim Korinek and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan further explores this idea by showing how civilians are also affected by the trauma of war not just soldiers. “American Ignorance of War” by Czeslaw Milosz shows American’s

The Beautiful Struggle, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is about a young man living in the less developed area of Baltimore, Maryland and how he became conscious. The Wire is a television show about violence and drug action that the Baltimore Police Department handles and acquires through phone tapping. Both of these works of art are based on the Black Experience. Their Black experience is similar relating to the setting, Ebonics they used, and their perception. On the other hand, their Black experience differs because Coates is not directly involved with drugs and violence, but witnesses this compared to the characters in the “Wire” who were directly involved. Coates experience relates to the “Wire” although both were not set in the same time period.

The nature of truth presented in Stories We Tell, directed by Sarah Polley stands in stark contrasts with the nature of truth presented in Man on Wire, directed by James Marsh. However these documentaries are both postmodern. Both documentaries presented a variety of documentary, language and film techniques that express the nature of truth in each film. Polley demonstrates the intersubjective nature of truth through the use of interviews and music. Marsh however, uses long angle shots and flashbacks to demonstrate that truth can be elusive.

This documentary has a voice which is the most important part of any movie, furthermore, it has it own way of living and breathing and speaking to

The documentary, Man on Wire, directed by James Marsh (2008), is a British-American biographical documentary film. This thrilling yet inspirational film is about the young French man, Philippe Petit, and him fulfilling his dream of walking on a high wire between the World Trade Center. This daring yet illegal performance was known as ‘the artistic crime of the century’ in 1974. There were various aspects throughout this film that allowed me to reflect personally although there were also a few elements that I was incapable of accepting. The three factors that affected my response to the film were my experiences, physiological make-up and values.

The documentary, directed by James Marsh, focuses on French tightrope walker Philippe Petit's high-wire stunt performed between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in 1975. The film serves as an sublime example of the Towers global symbolic importance, as well as a need man . Criminal turned

The movie, Man on Wire is a documentary about wire-walker, Philippe Petit, who proves his impossible, yet inspiring dream above the clouds between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers was indeed possible. During this documentary, Petit magically walked and danced across a wire, leaving the audience filled with suspense and extremely sweaty palms. This project, completed by James Marsh, was truly a job well done, because of the way he has Petit narrate the documentary and how he recounts the events that unfold. This film kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time because of the way the events were revealed by cross-cutting between flashbacks that explain to the audience a little about what is going on, rushing towards the unfolding of the morning before the adventure. Supplemental to the vast amount of historical footage in the film, Marsh uses several aesthetics of realism such as voiceovers, on-camera interviews, textual information on screen to display facts, mise-en-scene, handheld cameras, natural lighting, existing footage, real people and diegetic sounds. Throughout the film, the filmmaker’s obvious goal is not only about telling a story about a man, but more significantly about an overall attitude towards life that refuses to acknowledge limits and boundaries. James Marsh tells this amazing and brave story using film techniques like existing images, on-camera interviewing, real people, and mise-en-scene that create a truth about the world; a world where everything

Plot summary: Amir flashbacks to when he was twelve years old in Afghanistan. He lives with his father, Baba, and has two servants, Ali and Hassan, who are also a father and son duo. The latter two are Hazaras, Afghan’s minority, and as such, are subjected to racial slurs and cruelty. Amir and Hassan are playing when Assef, Kamal, and

INTRO Man on Wire is a Documentary film based on the story of a French wire walker by the name of Philippe Petit who became well known for doing the unimaginable and walking on a wire between the World Trade Centre buildings in New York in 1974. This film shows the journey that Philippe takes to reach the destination of his dream since he was 17 and discovered a newspaper article about the Twin Towers that were yet to be built. Along with Philippe’s dreams come a lot of risks that he is confronted with and great skills that need to be fully executed before he can attempt to build himself up to the Twin Towers.

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.” - Ernest Hemingway.