The soundtrack and lighting shaped the whole movie. When I watched the movie, I didn't think that Armstrong's first step on the moon was the climax of the whole film. On the contrary, it was really just a small step. The climax of the whole film should be when Armstrong left home. The conversation with his family before, or when he told his friends the name of his dead daughter, at that time he really broke through a certain state of his own psychology.
In the first half of the film, after Armstrong's daughter died, after his son learned that Armstrong was going to wait for the moon, and after attending the funeral of his "comrade-in-arms", Armstrong's son had only one reaction - to play, or to find someone to play with him. The child's naive behavior is in sharp contrast to the character's psychologically major blow, which is a very nice detail.
In terms of lighting, some shots use side lighting to make the characters show the effect of yin and yang faces, which is more appropriate to the major changes that will occur in each character, whether it is psychological or behavioral (for example, before Armstrong shook hands with his eldest son, the eldest son, the eldest son, the The son shows a yin and yang face)
The soundtrack uses a lot of music that reflects the era, and the background music changes with the shot (for example, the background music suddenly stops after Armstrong opens the hatch on the moon)
The downside is that the film is limited by the length of time and does not show the scene where he returned to Earth, as well as more details of Armstrong's life, so that I can't make a specific generalization of Armstrong's character after watching the movie.
In addition to the soundtrack and lighting, the biggest success of the film is that it treats a hero as an ordinary person, and shows that it is still a hero, even more heroic than a hero.
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