I am so glad NatGeo put this on their station relatively early.
Normally we'd have to wait months, if not years, or rent/buy digital copies for documentaries to see them, but between this and Period. End of Sentence on Netflix - let's keep making documentaries accessible!
One downside is that as beautiful as this is shot, it makes me sad I couldn't see this in IMAX. It did get a limited re-release in IMAX theaters in January, but we didn't get it.
Alex Honnold lives in a van and there's a shower in the van. That's kind of cool. Almost cooler that mountain climbing without gear, but it doesn't reach those heights.
And he practices this! He goes up (some of the way) with one Tommy Cauldwell (who has his own documentary) on El Capitan to get a feel for things.
I enjoy how it's not "Oh this dude is a benevolent rock climber who does all these good things!".
Nope.
It's a dude who's somewhat callous and blunt about feelings and has idealized memories of his childhood. As if he was a tech bro in Silicon Valley, being unconcerned with feelings and very concerned with the goal. Somewhat relatable.
They do everything but say he has some kind of personality disorder, which I appreciate because that's a little deep for this, but you can kind of tell.
You see a lot about him as a person and his history, which is fine but I came here for rock climbing. This could have been a cool hour fifteen if we didn't have to psychoanalyze this dude.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Don't be shy, but don't be a dick either.