I saw The Walk<\/i> today — in gorgeous stereo IMAX. The movie straddles a tightrope between reporting a real historical event and taking the viewer on a journey into pure wish-fulfilment fantasy.<\/p>\n
And it manages that delicate high wire act perfectly. I was aware at every moment that I was watching a Robert Zemeckis fantasia, the kind of astonishingly nimble effects-driven opera de cinema<\/i> that is his stock and trade.<\/p>\n
Yet I was also aware of being invited into a very personal story, that strange and unpredictable place where human frailty somehow transforms into godlike grace.<\/p>\n
To my mind it was a perfect film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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