Free Solo 2018
Directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · 100 mins · 2,544 views
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Ugh, hell yes. Alex Honnold is one of the most interesting people alive. I’ve been interested in him before this movie so I was automatically going in pretty excited. This doc did such a great job at tapping into the psychological impacts his passion has rather than just the “OHH SHIT DUDE YOU COULD DIE”. Very ethical film as well. Overall just felt super engaging and had me doing a lot of thinking. But MAN, he is the shittiest boyfriend of all time lmfao. Maybe my favorite documentary of the year so far.
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what was more monumental, alex climbing the mountain or alex saying “i love you, i appreciate you”?
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the most stressful part of this movie was trying to figure out why these two people are dating
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The great thing about cinema is that it allows us to experience things we would never be able to do in real life, like spend more than 5 seconds with this unbearable prick.
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Turns out the hardest mountain for Alex to climb…was love Nah jk it was that giant fuckin cliff
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I honestly feel like if this guy didn’t climb rocks, he’d be a serial killer.
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i cant stop thinking about how he had to teach himself how to hug at the big age of 23. why did his parents do that to him?? look what you’ve done to him…now he climbs big rocks to feel ALSO when he drank boiled water STRAIGHT out of a SAUCEPAN??? literally what the fuck! maybe the wildest thing i’ve ever seen on film
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Sempre io che dicevo ai miei da piccolo: “ma figuratevi se qualcuno si arrampica a rubarci in casa al quarto piano”
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“The free soloing mentality is pretty close to warrior culture, where you give something 100% focus because your life depends on it.” “This is your path and you will pursue it with excellence.”
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when I grow up I want to be alex honnold
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C’est un grand malade
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Deberían hacerlo en una movie
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Yeah, I saw Alex climb Taipei 101 in-person this year or whatever… I’m glad I viewed this after seeing Alex climb that tower because I don’t know if I would have actually gone to watch him if I’d known that I would be screaming constantly at the screen during his documentary for Sanni to break up with him.
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The story of a man who does not love his girlfriend Jesus H Christ There were so many moments in the movie that made me way more anxious than I expected. Very few times you get to be an eyewitness to someone pushing the very limits of what we thought was possible
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“Nobody achieves anything great because they’re happy and cozy” Alex is equally obnoxious as he is inspiring. He free soloed el cap so whatever I guess.
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alex honold saying his gf isn’t a climber when she was doing lead on super hard routes is crazy lol
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white man complex
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Impressive but I have to much self respect to ever date someone like Alex
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Watching this film while I’m sitting here in Yosemite reallly hits differently 😳
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I’m really glad I never have to do this
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JJade Bailey 8 月 21, 2026
Does a feat of pure insanity and pushing the boundaries of what humans should be able to do. ‘I’m happy’
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What an incredible documentary- couldn’t ask for much more
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Absolutely crazy how he does it
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So many mixed feelings abt this guy
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huge win for autistic emotionally avoidant dudes everywhere
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Vertigineux et passionnant, ce documentaire offre un regard édifiant sur nos propres limites, interrogeant notre rapport à la peur et au dépassement de soi. Un film documentaire sur l’un des plus grands exploits de l’escalade, la montée à mains nues du sommet “El Capitán” (900 mètres de hauteur en “free solo”) par Alex Honnold.
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It’s a nice documentary, but it might be better if Herzog made it (BIG missed opportunity). I still don’t understand rock climbers. By comparison, hiking in Alaska and living inside an abandoned bus sounds more reasonable to me.
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God his gf is such a bird
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alex honnold going through his beta for the boulder problem and highlighting that he had to trust his feet guys he’s just like us. BEAUTIFUL GRANITE. v1 slab in my gym btw.
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big autismo strikes again
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4.5/5 Stars Documentary Review #2 • Type shit that makes you wanna do go run a mile at 3 in the morning. Everything about this man is so interesting and inspiring. I can’t even imagine living with the psyche of his. Truly one of the most nerve racking and stressed induced things I’ve seen with my own eyes. I truly can’t even imagine what was going through his brain of his while climbing that mountain. I loved the aspects of…
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After seeing the spectacle of Alex’s climb for the first time, a lot of the development in the first and second acts of this film feel very forced, almost reality-tv level scripted to portray specific points about the severity of free soloing El Cap, which would be better portrayed without all the talking to camera interviews and curated quotes. But when Alex finally gets on the wall and all the build up from the past hour of teaching the audience about the magnitude of this moment in climbing finally pays off, it really is delightful in a way no other film could be.
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One of the greatest feats of strength and mental fortitude in human history. The cinematography of Honnold scaling El Capitan with the valley below are some of the most spectacular shots ever captured.
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You can achieve anything. Bravery isn’t the absence of fear. Practice what you do so much that you have no choice but to succeed.
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crazy how alex decided not to use any stunt double for his role
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Son bir ayda çok fazla tırmanış içeriği izledim detaylı tırmanış oyunu da oynayıp bitirdim bu aralar köyümdeki dağı free sololamak istiyorum. Bunu önceden izlemiştim loglamamışım.
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They brush over the fact that his wife almost killed him twice
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I have patience but I also have self respect wifey
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It has achieved everything 14 peaks failed at !!! I have been a fan of climbing since i read the manga The Climber (or Ascension), i haven’t watched many documentaries about climbing (it’s only my third one) but I’ve watched YouTube videos about the subject and still to this day nothing made a bigger impact than The Climber for me. Free solo is the closest thing to The Climber and thus to real climbing i have seen yet. From directing to…
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Unreal
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sembra che si odino alex e la sua fidanzata da come parlano l’una dell’altro. Apparte questo belissimo documentario, me lo aspettavo piu incentrato sulla scalata, ma effettivamente così era meglio. Il fatto che si veda: 1. come alex è cresciuto, con la sua famiglia, sua madre, il padre, la sua scuola. 2: su di lui, la sua personalità, la sua fidanzata, i suoi amici ecc 3: la storia sul free solo, arrampicata ecc. Così facendo si può proprio…
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This made me really sad
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the best adventure doc i’ve ever seen.
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it makes sense that his amygdala is not active, i mean for someone to go to this extreme theres gotta be smth wrong with them. its kinda cool how he needs more stimulation than others for his amygdala to activate. i didnt like his attitude, but he did IB too so i cant complain. hes so avoidant holy shit. he genuinely doesnt see the good in people at all. “weird dude but i find him intrresting” been there. “the bottomless pit of self-loathing” i don’t like pitting people but i feel bad. the part she was giving him a haircut made me so emotional.
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this felt like an episode of Love on the Spectrum
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i know he doesn’t die but it feels like he’s gonna die
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The ‘who’s the best Spider-Man?’ debate is over.
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so delightful PEAK getting to watch this in Whistler
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Why didn’t he just take the stairs?
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Makes me want to lock in with climbing
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He was like “meh I don’t care about you don’t mess with my head” and she said “what if you fell lol” Maybe perfect couple for straight up not listening to each other
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“Maybe it’s for future generations, you know? Or maybe just somebody who has nothing to live for” One of the most insane achievements in human history I loved how they showed his psyche and how his brain almost can’t feel fear, so he does such life or death feats to try chase that feeling. Maybe the love part of his brain doesnt work either, because that poor girlfriend got treated like a pet hamster
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Terrifying and awesome. I’ve seen so many interviews and clips of this and somehow have never watched it. It’s rly interesting what they included and what they didn’t, like the two times he got psyched out on the climb that wasn’t included. I think the emotional toll of free soloing is insane, and they did a great job showing that.
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After watching this movie, I realized that I do not like this type of movie.
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Now I can qualify to be a male manipulator which is cool
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Ddarnmitchell 8 月 19, 2026
maybe the maddest cunt ever
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i love natgeo
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Il m’a fasciné et insupporté, franchement vas-y lui
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“Nobody achieves anything great by being happy and cozy.” mükemmel mükemmel tüylerim diken diken oldu
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Genuinely one of the most insane things i’ve ever watched. I can’t fathom how he even begins to manage the fear. Suprised he can climb that high with his massive steel balls
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GET DOWN FROM THERE.
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Love how the making of the documentary is such a compelling part of the actual documentary
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I’ve done this too but white dudes get all the credit whatever
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Had to know if he made it out alive before finishing duh. Obsessed with him
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Climbing
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Fucking insane feat of human ability and perseverance. Really cool and watching him pursue his dream to that extreme is inspiring honestly.
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holy fucking shit
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This guy is hands down top ten coolest people on the planet. But I can’t put into words how beyond grateful I am that I do not have whatever is wrong with him.
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True hunger for a challenge, he did what made him truly alive and that’s so inspirational. All that was said in this doc about pursuing greatness by leaving your comfort zone almost didn’t need to be said, you just need to see him climb that wall and that will tell you so much more than what words could.
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Peak (letterlijk)
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Perfect doc
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What true autism can achieve
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Pov moi quand je fais une via ferrata
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Palms sweaty moms spaghetti after this shit
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My 3rd time watching, kinda like a comfort movie. Slow pacing but you can’t rush the GOAT.
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One of the greatest feats of mankind filmed and documented. Alex is a legend x
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When it comes to movies about climbing this is the most cliche… that being said it’s an absolute must and anyone who can watch this and not feel something is dead inside
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Marco Beltrami really carried me here.
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This guy and his girlfriend that he doesn’t like are so annoying #darkwizard4life
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Un poco desconsiderado, ngl.
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Hands down my favorite documentary ever. My hands were sweating the entire time watching, but it was so cool to see him do this. Now I have to go to Yosemite just to see El Capitan!!!
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Alex Honnold is not human 😂
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wauuuu q chato
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Venice homework #5: prep for the same filmmakers’ new Everest doc. Physically impressive and morally fucked up. I knew from the tone he wasn’t going to die, but I couldn’t help wondering about the film they would have made with all of this if he did.
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‘What’s the next step?’
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The fact that I seem to be more stressed watching this than he is doing it probably shows why I’m not climbing el cap and he is.
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LLK 8 月 17, 2026
This is how I found out I was autistic.
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Mmars_143 8 月 16, 2026
one of the most stressful things i’ve watched and i’m slightly tempted to try now
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Tiene la dieta de una zarigüeya y su trabajo es escalar paredes de alturas criminales sin cuerda y que probablemente le lleven a una muerte segura por amor al arte. Partidazo.
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W doc
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My palms get sweaty watching this
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hope i can be as idgaf as alex. (well i used to be)
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tremendo lo que hace el loco pero pobre mina
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Me encanta
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yeah we larping documentaries
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真诚到毫无掩饰的人，好喜欢，这种自信还有不care的态度可能就是我一辈子要追随的人吧/看完几度常常忘记这是个纪录片，这拍摄和节奏和大片无异了，and强烈推荐IMAX观影了！ (1 有用)
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“So delighted”…and then the hunger returns. (Alex Honnold).
- Synopsis
- Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
- Director
- Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
- Studio
- National Geographic Documentary Films, Little Monster Films, Itinerant Media, Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 100 mins
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- Australia12 Oct 2018
- Poland25 Oct 2018
- USA03 Nov 2018
- Mexico09 Nov 2018
- Netherlands18 Nov 2018
- Greece03 Mar 2019
- Luxembourg12 Mar 2019
- Russia02 Jun 2019
- Lithuania25 Nov 2019
- USA28 Sep 2018
- Canada12 Oct 2018
- UK14 Dec 2018
- Netherlands10 Jan 2019
- Australia24 Jan 2019
- Denmark31 Jan 2019
- Italy21 Feb 2019
- Mexico22 Feb 2019
- Portugal17 Mar 2019
- Germany21 Mar 2019
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