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Free Solo & Pressure: What Big-Screen Risk Means to Me
Read This Story: Free Solo & Pressure: What Big-Screen Risk Means to MeI find a strange comfort in sitting in front of a screen, preferably slurping a neon-blue Ice Blast, and watching people take catastrophic risks. I adore the early Buster Keaton movies, with their playful yet death-defyingly dangerous stunts, just as much as the fictional risk of a character like Andrew Neiman in Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash,…
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