Fly
When a group of BASE jumpers loses three of its members, an outsider asks, ‘What’s this stupid thing they do?’ One of the jumpers we interviewed during our seven year shoot responded, ‘You jump and you fall. But when you jump in a wingsuit, you pretty much fly.” And after a pause, he poses a self relic query Is it okay to risk for fun?
In the documentary ‘Fly,’ the audience gets to meet the Living Street performers the BASE jumpers. The jumpers fly with amazing GoPro footage during the jumps, high above the most beautiful mountains and canyons. Sometimes it’s joyful and sometimes sad since there are many traumatic accidents shown and heard.
BASE is an acronym with four letters: B for building, A for antenna, S for span (bridge), and E for earth (cliffs). The individuals in the film jump off clips or mountain edges in fascinating parts of the world like the Alps, Korea, or Utah’s Moab. For these individuals, the whole world consists of two parts places where you can jump from and the other where you cannot jump from.
As much as they relish leaping from their jump spots, known as ‘exits’, they also find joy in discovering new jump spots.
Most people appear to be quite absolute in their viewpoints. There are two races of jumpers. The first race of jumpers appears to detest living the life of ‘everyone else’ who live around televisions and their children. As we see it’s hardly strange that all the spouses we meet are married to people of a different nationality them in the community of jumpers is limited and what the jumpers share is not a language or culture but the passion for flying and falling and the intention to do so despite the danger.
One of them, together with Marta, is probably the more visible part of the jumper community. The euphoric Jimmy claims no man has married the woman who instructed him in BASE jumping, a distinction he has enjoyed for some time. He founded a business in which they purchased and taught the art of Brazilian native Marta. Each year, they host a party that resembles a Burning Man for jumpers, into which they incorporate a more real lifestyle.
Jimmy has the unique honor of being a pioneer in locating Moab’s new and thrilling ‘exit’ point. He names it ‘Dragon’s Nest’. It is a different story when they go out for an annual party, they take a picture as a group and even make it clear that at least some of the people in this picture will die in many aerial trips before the next reunion.
Scotty and Julia are also an American Brazilian couple and they also practice and teach BASE jump. The Army veteran had some rough days in the military but when he picked up jumping, he found it his purpose. He claims that he managed to jump at least once a week for nine years now. What about Julia? She quit her lawyer’s job to pursue BASE jumping full time.
Espen is Norwegian and Amber is from the UK and they are competitive jumpers, professional in this sport. In the movie, while a couple of years back the jumpers were seen as offenders, now it is developed into an official sport with it being included in the Super Bowl halftime drill of 2020. Espen and Amber do not just jump but rather perform a dance number where they swim in the air, at the same time.
‘Fly’ goes slightly further in respect of the risks and the responsibility or lack of it involved in the act as opposed to the recent ‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’ but not quite. The BASE jumpers however say that their sport is “selfish”. Some people even know that it is only the people that are left behind that suffer the loss. We witness what happens to a person who is a part of couple when the other suffers grave injuries.
She questions if she will still have a relationship if she is no longer able to continue jumping. He questions whether it would be against his principles to continue jumping if she was dead.
Body cameras and microphones provide us an exhilarating glimpse at insane jumps, and modern technology offers us an exhilarating glimpse at astonishing jumps and, yes, modern technology offers us an exhilarating glimpse at astonishing jumps and, yes, modern technology offers us an exhilarating a glimpse at astonishing jumps Body cameras show us the jaw dropping beauty of the stunts while enabling us to hear the cringeworthy moments a breathtaking performance turned into a potentially horrifying catastrophe. Jumpers may seem agitated from the outside and show distress but when viewers look at the emotions of tumbling jumpers, that sense of dismay didn’t sacrifice their performance, as there’s something more stoic. When other people watch the film, its subjects reveal their deepest wish to send a message in case something happens to them. One of them agrees. When time is a factor, the film’s subjects recognize the beauty in simple moments, an invaluable tendency that many people take for granted.
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