Robert Zemeckiss immersive retelling of World Trade middle tightrope walk reportedly causes nausea,and in some case vomiting
The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s 3D retelling of the tightrope artist Philippe Petit’s notorious 1974 high wire walk between New York’s towers, or is giving viewers vertigo.
After this weekend’s press screening of the film at the New York film festival,a number of critics, including The Guardian’s Nigel M Smith, and described the vertiginous effects of watching the genuine-life drama. Following the film’s premiere on Saturday night,a number of audience members reported feeling physically ill after watching Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit in the movie’s key sequence, in which the artist balances 1362 feet above the ground without a net.
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Source: theguardian.com