Everyone is watching such a great movie

Dock 2022-01-05 08:01:58

2021 update:

I just saw Sanni posted an article about her experience of falling in love with Alex and making a documentary from her perspective. It’s worth watching.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2422874/professional-climber-jordan-cannon-comes-out-gay

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Unexpectedly, I won an Oscar and suddenly became popular. I felt a huge discomfort.

Congratulations first.

The following are purely personal thoughts that were blocked by some short comments when this movie was still very small, plus foolish science, welcome everyone to discuss =v=

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Last year, I saw that Alex took El Capitan with his bare hands. It was an explosion. How big is this news? It's probably an achievement in the rock climbing industry.

For simple science, the different routes of el capitan may be slightly different, but it is about a kilometer or so. The first team to reach the summit in the 1990s took 45 days to live on the wall, nails, and ropes. Even if it takes two or three days to go up, it's a normal level. Those who can go up here are also big guys.

How difficult are these routes? The freerider line on alex is about 7c+. The climbing difficulty ranges from 3, 4, 5a, 5b, 5c, 6a, 6b, 6c... and so on. I have crawled in bits and pieces for more than three years, which is only 6b. Of course, I am more homely and more food. But basically the local climbing gym who can climb 7b has to be looked up. Above, in the case of indoor top rope, the top rope is protected by a rope. If you fall the rope, you can hang the rope and rest. Outdoors is another situation. First of all, outdoor is not like indoors, you can see where the next hold is at a glance, and secondly, there will be wind! Rocks will slip! There will be birds rushing out of the cave to frighten you! The impact is not the same as indoors. Then there will be no top rope for you outside, even if it’s not a free solo like alex, you have to lead climb, that is, you take the rope with you, and you can fall up to seven or eight meters from one bolt to another. The requirements for endurance and physical strength have gone up a lot. If you can play 6b indoors, you can reduce it by at least two gears to 5c outdoors. If the height is high, you usually go to France and Belgium. The average is about 40 meters on the rock wall. If you have a multipitch, you can climb one or two hundred meters to die. So everyone can feel the outdoors again! One thousand meters! No protection! Four hours! It's terrible!

The above only represents the feeling that ordinary people see Alex. In terms of difficulty, of course, it is not uncommon for professional players to get to 9a, so the most difficult thing about alex is still unprotected. Free solo means that if you are familiar with the route, you will die when you slip. The description of Alex in the movie is that an athlete, he has the strength to get a gold medal, but free solo is equivalent, he will die if he does not get a gold medal. Mmmm.

The director, Alex and a group of people have been friends for many years, but this documentary rarely sees the director's subjective color. They are all very objective records of Alex’s life, Alex’s thoughts, and Alex’s rock climbing. They did not exaggerate how much he climbed, nor did they render the tragic colors. They recorded some bits and pieces, as for the pieces. The story is that everyone experiences different experiences and different understandings.

I saw it at the Eminem Documentary Film Festival two months ago. I can't remember the small details. I remember that there were a lot of laughs. The audience laughed many times. Knowing that he finally climbed up, he could still see sweaty palms. In the end, he himself felt even more unreality when he took the stage. The audience applauded passionately for a minute.

In a few small clips, what does Alex do for NMR? Looking at the brain reaction, it is found that the average person sees dangerous things and reacts to certain chemicals in his brain. He produces very little, aka he does not feel fear. He himself said that the brain had been stimulated too much to give birth. Then I took a questionnaire and asked, do you feel depressed, Alex paused for a while after writing, mmmm. My feeling is that his world is very small, and the focus is really 100% on one thing. He decided to free solo el capital and kept climbing, training, and taking notes to ensure that every little detail is correct. Foolproof. But such people in daily life are not necessarily likable. One clip is Alex said that he thinks his previous girlfriends didn't care about him as much as they said. Will they be sad when he dies, maybe it will only take two or three days. Very indifferent, very awkward, quirky. Maybe this kind of person can achieve this kind of achievement. There are so many messy things in my world, sharing time with friends, sharing time with family, colleagues, hobbies, social interactions, this, that, which of us is happier, Who knows.

Alex departed before dawn and arrived at the top at noon. Once he was excited, the person next to him had any plans for the afternoon. He said he would train for a fingerboard for a while. People on the side: ....normal people would say i'd take the day off.

Hey, the writing is so long, I can't stop it.

The two most controversial points in this movie are the movie itself and the female ticket of Alex.

Many people think that Alex's decision to let others shoot his free solo is a special commercial act, not pure, attention whore, saying that rock climbing is actually just trying to be famous. After all, this is not to say that the camera can take pictures. In the early preparation, find someone, hang on the rock wall to arrange the equipment, and find the angle. From alex's point of view, the psychological pressure of doing one thing alone is completely different from the psychological pressure of a bunch of people doing one thing, because he has prepared for a longer time. From the point of view of the photographers, most of them are friends of Alex. The thought of shooting a friend who fell to death is enough to make the team unable to form. A clip of the group shot at the bottom of the mountain. One of them dared not look at the camera when Alex was climbing. He turned his head and covered his eyes while saying how you could watch it, and covered his mouth several times in exclamation.

Many comments on Alex’s female votes are even more exaggerated. I think that a pure person like Alex is not only hurting him several times, but also dragging him to buy a house or something. He is a person who eats directly with a pot. How can you let him live in a big house? The female ticket's ins said that many people came to accuse her after the movie. Wow, what's the matter with you guys. Do you think alex must be what kind of person is? He just likes it if he is happy. How the movie shows these things is a personal matter. In the movie, Alex had just been with the sister for not long. He bluntly said that the girl climbed very poorly, and then they went to rock climbing. He hurt his back because of the mistake of the girl. In the next shot, he said, "I thought about breaking up with her" while doing an examination in the hospital. Later, he was injured again. After listening to him, I had never been injured in rock climbing before. I have been injured since I was with her. But the two are still sweet. Asked him what it feels like to have a female ticket, he said she's cute and tiny, doens't take much space and lights up the van. The girl said that Alex likes to express likes with actions, she understands this and likes it very much, but sometimes she still hopes Alex can give her linguistic encouragement. Then at the end, Alex called the girl after reaching the top. Before hanging up the phone, he used very no emotional fluctuations. Listening to the voice like memorizing lines, thank you very much i really appreciate you, i love you, bye. The whole audience laughed die.

I was extremely inspired by the movie. However, within two days of the heat, I will be back to the days when my body was hollowed out from 9 to 5. Ah, I can’t wait to release it and download it. I feel like I can watch it once a week. (.

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Extended Reading
  • Brooke 2022-03-31 09:01:04

    If he doesn't like this boy, it may be because he controls it to the extreme and loses the human flavor of the shop. This is like a workaholic, a star-chasing paranoid, their love is only focused on one thing, and they are not interested in the world and human beings. And free solo seems to me a lot like drug addiction, addiction, and high risk of death.

  • Damian 2022-01-05 08:01:58

    I don't think there is any problem with his girlfriend. Alex is eager for this relationship in all aspects. Those who criticize this are probably just creating a god in his heart. This is no different from the rice circle culture.

Free Solo quotes

  • Alex Honnold: You're standing on tiny edges, small variations in the texture of the rock. If you slip, your hands can't hold you. It's just the two tiny points of contact that keep you from falling, and when you step up, there's only one.

  • Alex Honnold: My Mom's favorite sayings are, Presque ne compte pas, Almost doesn't count, or, uh, Good enough isn't. No matter how well I ever do at anything, it's not that good. The bottomless pit of self-loathing. I mean, that's definitely the motivation for some soloing.