This is a really great documentary. It's a "Tour de Force of Will". The energy that Petit shows even in his old age is inspiring. I was hungry for more information and sad when it finished. I would have loved to know a little more about all of the principal players and what they are up to now.
It is really quite something to imagine a time when this kind of feat was even possible. Obviously, times have changed a lot since the early seventies and we all understand the unspoken appeal of this whole story, but at the end of this documentary I kind of felt a little sad that our world has become a place where things like this are essentially impossible to pull off nowadays and amazed that this guy and his gang of buddies did it.
It is really quite something to imagine a time when this kind of feat was even possible. Obviously, times have changed a lot since the early seventies and we all understand the unspoken appeal of this whole story, but at the end of this documentary I kind of felt a little sad that our world has become a place where things like this are essentially impossible to pull off nowadays and amazed that this guy and his gang of buddies did it.