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There’s a Good Story This Netflix Documentary Isn’t Telling
You can sense the more thoughtful film lurking beneath Skywalkers: A Love Story, about the illegal and exhilarating influencer-sport of “rooftopping.”
The illegal and exhilarating influencer-sport of “rooftopping” involves individuals sneaking onto giant cranes, skyscrapers, radio towers, and other tall protruding structures to crawl, climb, and sometimes traipse their way to the top to pose for pictures. The Russian climber Angela Nikolau, one of the subjects of the new Netflix documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story, gained notoriety for introducing gymnastics and a softer, feminine angle to a sport that tends to valorize fitness, dominance, and adrenaline. It begins in typical streaming-doc fashion, in medias res, with Angela and Ivan breathlessly hiding from some workers as they attempt to scale Kuala Lumpur’s Merdeka 118 tower in 2022, while everybody down at street level is distracted by the World Cup final between France and Argentina.
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