I recently saw FLY in Imax at the Chinese Mann which seats over 900. There were maybe 10 people in total watching what is likely my favorite movie of the last several years. Very grateful it is streaming now so hopefully it will be enjoyed by many, many more people. It deserves to be. I went in expecting a super cool wing-suit demo reel and would have been perfectly content with that. What I watched instead was infinitely more personal, meaningful and thought provoking. The footage is indeed great, but it's not what makes this documentary so special. It is a film about a group of people, a band of outliers who stay with you, challenging your perceptions of life and risk and loving something so much even when it has a high probability of eventually killing you. I lost my dad who was also my best friend in an aerobatic plane crash, but, like the tribe in this film, he loved and lived so deeply I have never questioned a single choice he made. Wingsuit flying is at least an order of magnitude more dangerous than aerobatic flight and I do find myself questioning the choices on display at times. Yet there is so much life on this screen and within these people those questions don't have simple, binary answers. I know one thing, I deeply respect everyone involved with this project on screen and off.
