フリーソロ
あらすじ
垂直に切り立った数百メートルもの岩壁を、命綱や安全装置なしで登るというクライミング・スタイル“フリーソロ”のドキュメンタリー。若きクライマーのオノルドに1年密着し、前人未到の世界を克明に記録していく。
作品考察・見どころ
興行成績
興行収入: $21,790,193 (33億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
垂直に切り立った数百メートルもの岩壁を、命綱や安全装置なしで登るというクライミング・スタイル“フリーソロ”のドキュメンタリー。若きクライマーのオノルドに1年密着し、前人未到の世界を克明に記録していく。
興行収入: $21,790,193 (33億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
Alex Honnold made a huge feat and this documentary shows it to you in an excellent way. It never lets you go and at all times I was surprised and excited. Deserved winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary.
Did you see “The Alpinist” (2021) with the audacious, and now late, solo climber Marc-André Leclerc? Well in that nerve-wracking feature there is an interview with Alex Honnold, by then an already successful climber for whom fear held no bounds, explaining just how addictive and dangerous this perilous activity is. This film, made three years earlier, reveals to us something of Honnold’s own fearlessness as we watch him set off to scale sheer rock faces like Yosemite’s 3000 foot “El Capitan” armed with little more than a T-shirt, shorts and some especially adapted shoes. He is well aware that the slightest error, or perhaps even just a sudden gust of wind, could leave him squished. Again, like Leclerc, he comes across as quite a selfish man, and you do feel for his girlfriend Sanni McCandless with whom he is frank. As he puts it, he sees no imperative in prolonging his own life at the expense of his career, even for her, and of course she struggles with the worry of him not coming back one day. There are also interviews here with fellow climbers who expertly provide the astonishing video footage that gets us up close and personal with a man who seems to take the pressure and the danger effortlessly in his stride. There is the real question for them, though: if he falls what do they film? Honnold comes across as an engagingly ordinary man, and therein lies part of his charm but also part of what makes his single-minded focus something that must make him an impossible candidate for fatherhood. He is simply too addicted to his climbing, and it seems it’s accompanying solitude too. I don’t usually suffer from acrophobia, but some of his daredevil activities here made the souls of my feet tingle.
