It’s been said countless times that the beauty of a film is its ability to transport the audience to different places. From the emptiness of space in Gravity, to the streets of 1860s New York City in Gangs of New York, to even the whimsical confectionary world of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, movies are meant to take the audience in places they've never been.
Director Robert Zemeckis may have mastered this transportive sensation a little too effectively with his latest movie, 'The Walk,' as reports are coming in that the high-wire film is causing people to actually throw up from vertigo.
Even if viewers don’t have a fear of heights, they might want to be careful when they go see 'The Walk.' It is about the French acrobat Philippe Petit and his magnificent 1974 wire walk between the towers of New York’s World Trade Center.
The film is a celebration of Petit’s act of love to cancel the act of hate on 9/11. Petit missed a single trick: he omitted to get cine film of the event, and now Robert Zemeckis has tried to rectify this with a heartfelt and extremely entertaining Imax-3D fiction feature based on the event.
The film is reportedly so good at depicting the 1,350-foot-high tightrope walk, audiences are left feeling woozy and sick with several people describing feelings of dizziness, queasiness, and extreme anxiety.
“[The goal] was to evoke the feeling of vertigo,” Robert Zemeckis said, reports The Hollywood Reporter. “We worked really hard to put the audience up on those towers and on that wire.” Looks like it’s “mission: accomplished!” The film was released on September 30, and early screenings have left people puking in the theaters!
The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, and Steve Valentine. The film was released by TriStar Pictures on September 30, 2015 in IMAX 3D, and on October 9 in regular 2D and 3D.
Watch the trailer below.
