In the eyes of many people, "The First Man on the Moon" is just about the first American moon landing process. However, as long as you study the texture of the story in the film, you can find that what it really wants to express is family affection. and lingering melancholy.
The film focuses on Armstrong, the first person to land on the moon. Before he entered NASA, he suffered the unfortunate death of his youngest daughter. Although such an accident, he could not escape, but once it happened, he could not easily resolve it. So when he accepted NASA's moon landing program, it just gave him a chance to suppress his emotions.
Therefore, the whole film has a cold camera tone. It uses close-ups to caress the numb face, and uses long-range views to constantly distance and isolate the vast space, allowing Gosling to recall the anger in the dead air of technology and the regularity of operations. Irregularities in finding emotion.
This film makes sci-fi films show another ideographic attribute: burying warm and cold human feelings with emotionless science and mathematics, sci-fi becomes a kind of coat with contrast, through which all repressed emotions can be truly distilled warmly Come out, this gas is quite invasive.
Therefore, the most successful part of "First Man on the Moon" is not that it tells a historical event, but that it unblocks a sincere and difficult to express family affection. Science fiction is no longer the really important medium of representation, but a ladder for humanity to climb to heaven, just as the ladder relies on mathematical sciences, and heaven is entangled in the origins of humanity.
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