Another thing that happened in 1969

Name 2022-11-24 12:28:08

Don't talk about politics, don't talk about the Cold War. I saw a sentence in "One Step Forward": "When you have the opportunity to get on a rocket, don't ask where it's going, don't ask why, just sit on it." When I watched "The First Landing on the Moon" "People", I saw such a Neil Armstrong on a rocket, but the truth is much more than that.

1969 was a year to remember, Woodstock, the Apollo moon landing, the space complex and music, all ideal, the embodiment of romance, the burning of fuel, the moment a rocket lifts off, what more can you ask for, And music, transformed into everyday life, penetrated into life, hippies stayed on the surface, and astronauts flew into space. In addition to the landmark space technology and human history breakthroughs, the Apollo moon landing is more important than the courage of the very few people represented by Armstrong.

Why go to the moon? Why choose the moon? Kennedy's passionate speech comforted a large group of people, however, the huge cost of taxpayers' money, ridicule from civilians, sacrifice and hardship, accident and pain, is what the moon landing needs to bear, in any case, Apollo finally landed. It's been a month since Armstrong became the first person to leave footprints on the surface of the moon, and mankind made history.

Armstrong is obsessed, at least Armstrong in "The First Man on the Moon" is like this. After landing on the moon, everything is recorded in history, and the present and the future are the truth and facts. The physical properties and inertia of time and space will be Forces you to keep moving forward, from beginning to end, from youth to old age, from birth to death.

Talking about what you like, first of all, the retro texture of the whole film, the hand-held lens adds multiple close-ups, and the space lens is calm and atmospheric. In addition, Gosling lifts a child like a paper shell, and a woman like a child. This unique and stunt action has been tried and tested, and it makes people play in minutes.

In addition to the face of Gosling, the Armstrong he plays is more like a person, not just the national hero on the altar, he is complex and multi-faceted. He is the calm husband in his wife's mouth. He is an excellent and agile engineer and astronaut in the eyes of his colleagues. restraint.

I felt like I learned another trick in my colleague's counterattack at the funeral. I didn't drive the crashed plane, and I didn't investigate the crash, so I wouldn't pretend that I knew the facts. The logic is clear, the accusation is not rude. The scene of avoiding the funeral is also a direct expression of the demand for quiet solitude, inhumane and loud.

I once thought that Armstrong preferred his daughter. After her daughter died, she hid in a small dark room and cried. She quickly moved to work. She avoided his wife and son. Before the moon landing, the family sat at the table late at night, and the eldest son and Armstrong shook hands to say goodbye. It was just a handshake. It was a strong emotion that belonged to the restraint between father and son. It was hidden under the pretended calm face. Hidden in answer-like discourse that pretends not to care.

The climax of the ending, the daughter's bracelet stalk, was finally buried in the moon. This stalk was buried for a long time, so that it was unexpected at the end, when the music played, it broke my heart instantly, it was extremely romantic, Gosling lifted the light-blocking mask and shed tears , then, turn around and return to the team.

When the spacecraft approached the moon and looked out of the window, the first impression of the moon was not beautiful, but terrifying, full of pits, surrounded by darkness, and then quiet, especially at the moment of exiting the cabin, the sound lost its transmission medium, like Came to a vacuum world, barren, magnificent, shocking.

People can't really feel the true feeling of Armstrong's first step on the moon, let alone the investment, twists and heights experienced in this flight from the earth to the moon. What we know is that one day, there will be a brave man. Man landed on the moon, and he left a piece of his heart there.

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First Man quotes

  • Janet Armstrong: It'll be an adventure.

  • Bob Gilruth: Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know there is no hope for their recovery.

    Bob Gilruth: They will be mourned by their families; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown...

    Bob Gilruth: Others will follow, and surely find their way home. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

    Bob Gilruth: For every human being who looks up at the moon in nights to come will know there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.