«The Walk» is worth seeing on a big screen for its final wire walk (intrusive voice - over notwithstanding), for its lovingly recreated images of the World Trade Center, for
its often wry humor (including a marvelous running gag involving an elevator operator) and for some of the supporting performances (notably Kingsley's pitch - perfect mentor performance, and James Badge Dale's turn as a wise - ass Franco - American who joins the team infiltrating the towers).
Not exact matches
And when Herrera talks about this work, it's
often with a little bit of a smile, a
wry sense of
humor that she's created a very simple geometric, clean, spare painting but that it's a barbecue, as she says.
The Surrealists, informed by the psychoanalytical work of Sigmund Freud, also believed in the efficacy of powerful subconscious associations with objects, which gave their assemblages an added level of theoretical obfuscation that
often translates into
wry humor.