The truly amazing thing for me was how Honnold made a run at the granite vertical face in 2017, and stopped. And yet, the film isn’t about any of these things.Īfter I watched this movie for the first time, my dreams (nightmares?) were littered with psychic trauma from having witnessed this mortal narrowly defeat death, this time. Oh, and by the way, how does one film such an attempt while not impacting the climber? These are the three main things this movie is about. And all the while, he is beginning a relationship as he is simultaneously navigating the dangerous minefield that free soloing means for his life.
We watch as Alex goes from tentativeness to full-on monster desire to tackle that particular wall. And all the while, kept his eye on one big, daunting climb…and that was El Capitan. We learn about how Alex progressed through some of the most difficult and amazing free climbs in the world. And yet, while that is what the movie is about on the surface, there are numerous underlying conversations that are more what the movie is about than Alex’s climbing attempts. Well, Free Solo is about Honnold’s attempt to conquer El Capitan, without ropes, or any sort of protection.
It would seem that this question would be entirely redundant. I can’t even watch that trailer again without hyperventilating, the movie itself is the stuff of nightmares for those of us who are even marginally aware of the enormous, overwhelming, and insatiable power that gravity has on us all.
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