On July 16, 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong slowly walked down the ladder and said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." left his footprints on the gravel. The film did not deliberately exaggerate the exciting emotions at the moment, but told Armstrong's inner turmoil in a cold, restrained and private way, which all came from director Chazelle's unique choice and expression of this event.
The first scene of "The First Man on the Moon" makes people feel the oppression and tension it brings to the audience, with noisy noises, shaking shots, and a simple and airtight cabin. Several short and powerful clips will make this test flight. The performance is full of crises, presenting the photographic motif that runs through the entire film-what Neil sees is what we see, which perfectly fits the director's need for Neil's inner emotional analysis, and sets the overall tone of the film- A personal experience.
The charm brought by the film also comes from its delicate and rich details. Director Damien Chazelle retains a part of his extreme romance in the film: the grain of the film is dotted with green grass, and a dance song brings sweet memories at night. , looking up at the moon under the blue sky and the ubiquitous blue. The color of the film has strong saturation, and blue is the keynote of the whole film. The director's mind is ingenious in color. When the film begins Neil Armstrong's first test flight, the first thing we see is not a macroscopic earth. , but a layer of blue halo on his helmet, which gradually became larger. The picture captured was a dark blue planet seen through two narrow spaces. The sense of occlusion, or the mirror that slowly floated as it flew out of the earth when Gemini took off, the beautiful blue reflected in Neil's eyes.
In shaping the character of Neil Armstrong, the director used a lot of details to create a complete three-dimensional person-there is a scene with very subtle emotional ups and downs in the film, Neil and Ed are walking on the road at night, Ed is While talking about how flying into space broadened his son's horizons, Neil saw a swing. For the first time, he talked to others about his daughter, "I used to have the same swing." He said suddenly, which immediately It shows the entanglement in Neil's heart and the knot in his heart that is difficult to unravel - his hidden love for his daughter, the dark blue moonlight hits Neil's back, and the blue is always deep and silent, so that Gloomy and lonely, he is such an extremely lonely person. He is not good at words. He is not as good at expressing his love as his wife. When he was underground, he didn't want to reveal his deepest emotions with others. The film repeatedly shows Neil looking at the sky, and a bright moon flickers on it. He looks at the moon from the earth, and he also looks at the earth from the moon. This is loneliness. Looking at each other, a helpless and helpless feeling, across the vast universe, there is an azure planet - a lonely planet.
For Neil, the moon is more of an empathy for his daughter, but not only that, the director focuses on the absurdity and ridiculousness of this brutal space race.
The film recomposes the life of Neil Armstrong and his wife at home many times through the shaping of light, shadow and environment, which brings a feeling of being oppressed at all times. He is just an ordinary person and may live an ordinary life. Life, but fate made him be driven forward by the death of others again and again, as if everyone died to push him to the throne of the "first man on the moon". Death is actually a common occurrence in Neil's life, but as his daughter is gone, he looks more and more numb. And the unique photography style makes it all look more cruel, cold, heartless, without too much description, the quick connection between several shots, "bang", four lives were buried in the cabin. Just as Janet complained to NASA during the Gemini incident, NASA is a group of children who want to make things appear to be under control, using a pile of simple materials to build models to let astronauts die one after another. For what? Just for a stupid "space race".
Flies in the cabin, unfastened seat belts, equipment that looks like plastic, or when Neil said goodbye to his family and said he would come back, the suicide note after the mission failed sounded, making it even more apparent that this "space" The absurdity of the race" and the hasty decision of the US government. This is also the difference between this film and "Apollo 13". This film does not even have a close-up of the American flag. Just like his photography motif, the director tried his best to weaken and restrain the national highlights in the film. The so-called "American spirit", and after Neil received the death notices one by one, the director wanted to vent his long-held anger on the wine glass, and the anger was buried deep in his heart. And that translates into the power to complete the mission - a death-defying obsession, Neil needs to step on the moon for their sacrifice, so the "highlights" that have cheered the world so far are heavy and serious.
When the hatch was opened, the entire moon was also opened, a desolate white and a bleak black. Neil stares at the bunker and the nothingness, recalls the past, and the hidden, private memories come to the fore as he drops the bracelet engraved with his daughter's name, a three-dimensional image of the tough father's love, his tenderness his Romance, it's all here in that bracelet - a lonely planet of white and black, so that when he returns to Earth to look at it, he knows the moon won't be alone.
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