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Free Solo (2018)
Free Solo (2018)
2018 | Documentary
8.3 (4 Ratings)
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"A documentary about free climber Alex Honnold that set my household on fire with questions about ambition, selfishness, discipline, existential depression, and the value of human attachments. Equally wondrous and horrifying, the film asks difficult questions about the value of near-impossible pursuits, and doesn’t seem to know the answers. I appreciate the searching."

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Free Solo (2018)
Free Solo (2018)
2018 | Documentary
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8.3 (4 Ratings)
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The best view comes after the hardest climb. Free Solo (2019) Review
In a world of ever-increasing strip-mining of existing properties for prequels and spin-offs, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine someone would set out to make a whole movie about the opening sequence of “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”.

Of course, that was fantasy and “Free Solo” is reality and although the climbing of El Capitan is the film’s crowning glory, the real hook of the documentary is in its exploration of what drives Alex Honnold to do what he does, proving that there’s so much more to the compulsion to climb a mountain than ‘because it’s there’...

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