The Edge of Never

Watched this in full on YouTube last night. I really enjoyed seeing the beautiful mountains of Chamonix and learning about the people who ski its steeps. The rest of it unfortunately seemed to be a shameless attempt to emotionally extort and manupulate this boy and get him to needlessly attempt the same dangerous run that killed his dad 9 years prior. Its pretty clear in the beginning that the kid has zero interest in doing this and loves skiing his home mountain of Whistler and is a park monkey. Enter our filmmaker, who says he wants to take the kid to France to ski the run his dad was killed. The filmmaker shamelessly admits this is an attempt to have skiing be a part of his lite, amid financial hardships that his skiing puts his family in. This is never mentioned again. The film opens with him saying that as a result of all this his friend has fallen down a crevasse and breaking two legd, ribs snd spine and its all his fault. We later learn that this happened to the hired guide.

So the bulk of this movie is all these pro skiers including a guy whos son died doing the same thing, trying to teach the kid how to ski on steeps all the while awknowleging how dangerous it is. To me it felt like the kid was emotionally manipulated into believing that this was all somehow so important to have closure regarding his dads untimely death, but again at the beggining kid didnt care at all cause he'd never hardly met his dad. So it left me with the feeling all this really was for some dude in his 40s to justify keeping skiing in his life....

oh and by the way the kid finishes the run but it never shows it. The hole damn thing leading up to that and it doesn't even show it. We see him start, it fades to black, and pickd up with kid calling his mom to tell her how awesome b it was.