Middle-aged bereaved, autistic, workaholic - also the first person to land on the moon

Malvina 2022-11-04 21:51:58

A middle-aged man who lost his beloved daughter, is not good at speaking, is severely autistic, and is a workaholic, but he is also the famous first person to land on the moon.

Damian Chazelle expressed the biographical story of the American national hero. Instead of praising the world and calling the world full of love, he chose the darkest moment of this middle-aged man. The 120 minutes of calm foreshadowing is only for the last moment of "letting go". The cool and pretentious long shots, no deliberately contrived dialogue, and no murmured poems, but the style is clear and straight to the hearts of the people.

A good play, a good story, always comes first.

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  • Deonte 2022-05-18 13:37:19

    3.5 The film has found a clever entry point to tell this well-known story, but it is still stable and lacks surprises. Especially the emotional climax of memorializing my daughter that was supposed to be caused during the moon landing. Because the first half of the film was too little foreshadowing, it was also broken up by a few sudden flashbacks, and it did not gush out and caused huge lethality. It is a pity. . However, we still have to thank "The First Man" for taking us through time and space and experiencing this thrilling moment in human history. Because as Kennedy said: "We choose to go to the moon in this era and have to do other things, not because they are simple, but because they are difficult."

  • Colt 2022-05-18 10:47:09

    3.5 Do a lot of right and do a lot of wrong. From a very personal point of view, the moon landing, excellent sound design, handheld photography and a large number of subjective perspectives minimize the distance between the audience and the character, making those successful or unsuccessful tasks are thrilling and particularly catching, but also emotional It seemed too late to express it, and the final sensational trick fell into a cliché. By joining the perspective of family and society to show reflections on this task, it adds a sense of hierarchy but also weakens the power of the emotional core to a certain extent. I should be able to get a lot of Oscar nominations for technical awards, and the sound effects, photography and soundtrack editing are very good.

First Man quotes

  • Neil Armstrong: I don't know what space exploration will uncover, but I don't think it'll be exploration just for the sake of exploration. I think it'll be more the fact that it allows us to see things. That maybe we should have seen a long time ago. But just haven't been able to until now.

  • Deke Slayton: Why do you think space flight is important?

    Neil Armstrong: I had a few opportunities in the X-15 to observe the atmosphere. It was so thin, such a small part of the Earth that you could barely see it at all. And when you're down here in the crowd and you look up, it looks pretty big and you don't think about it too much. But when you get a different vantage point it changes your perspective.