The moon landing is undoubtedly the greatest pioneering work of mankind in the 20th century and one of the greatest collective actions in human history. In an era without computers, mobile phones and the Internet, only the ingenuity of thousands of rocket scientists, the experimental efforts of engineers, and the cooperation of the three astronauts who represent the most calm, calm, and balanced hands and brains of mankind, can help Humans sent them to a desolate planet hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, and could bring them back safely. This kind of thing is placed on me in the 21st century, and I dare not even think about it. However, mankind was completed fifty years ago, and I have to sigh that war is really the greatest driving force for human progress.
I think humans really don't need to waste their talents on some mediocre things. For example, in the field of movies, 90% of things are mediocre and not worth the time to make or watch. And this movie, the subject matter alone surpassed 90% of the movies. The moon landing is a bright moment for mankind. This kind of subject matter, no matter how you should make a movie, it won't be bad. The film unearthed a huge amount of material from that year-material that has never been publicly published. What's amazing is that the video recording materials of the year were still relatively detailed, and many of them were relatively high-definition. Behind these massive amounts of original materials, how to edit and how to combine is the director's skill. Fortunately, the director cut me an excellent documentary.
The film begins with the big vision of the Florida Rocket Center. I didn't feel much until I entered the preparation room, which was similar to watching a news documentary, because we are more or less familiar with the rocket scenes from TV. When the camera panned to Armstrong and other three astronauts wearing spacesuits, the audience suddenly became nervous. This tension came from their calmness, their meticulous hair, and their calm answers; this seemed like It's like performing an ordinary flying mission, rather than taking humans to the moon. Then I got in the car at a closer distance, left, drove under the rocket launcher, took the elevator straight up to the 100-meter-high rocket platform, all in one go, the real close range and real noise made me feel that I have never been so close to the rocket launch. However, it also makes me feel that I don’t need high-tech to make people have a VR experience, as if I’m going to be in the rocket launcher.
The movie uses the minutes and seconds on the screen as clues to tell us how much time is left to launch. As time approaches, huge close-up shots of the control center, tourists on the beach, and rockets alternately appear. The perspectives of near, far, and the parties are constantly changing, coupled with the roaring rhythmic drums, giving people a huge tension and anxiety feel. Until the last few seconds before the rocket ignited, the music, noise, and dialogue all disappeared, leaving only a few seconds of drums that filled the entire theater. The lens is close to the igniter below the rocket, and the drum beat seems to be on the top of the audience. With a bang, a huge flame rose up, and human beings used their own power to send this behemoth to the universe. This shot made my eyes burst into tears.
The music and sound effects are undoubtedly a great contributor here; in the following plots, too, it almost has the function of dividing the story. With such a large amount of material, if the editing is not appropriate, it is easy for the audience to feel that it is a lengthy science and education film; but the director not only undertakes the task of science and education, but also delivers it to the audience in an artistic way. In addition to the countdown time on the screen just mentioned, the film also draws a schematic diagram of each task, telling the audience what they are doing, because the material shot 50 years ago was not prepared for filming, but because Due to technical limitations, many lenses cannot be taken. After reading these gifs, I probably understood the steps of landing on the moon and why there are always hundreds of scientists sitting in the control room. Ignition, rocket lift-off, fairing separation, orbiting the ground, moon landing ignition, orbiting the moon, separation of the lunar module, landing on the moon, separating the moon, connecting with the command module, orbiting the moon, igniting back to the earth, separation of the landing cabin... …Basically, it's a story of "putting the elephant in the refrigerator" with many more steps, and a story that makes me think "how can it be achieved". However, human beings are realized, and the film is presented. Just like Armstrong’s shocking saying in the film, "This is a small step for mankind, but a big step for mankind", it is not his conscious emotion, but a thorough fact. The camera scans the faces that are top-notch smart, those faces that rarely see smiles, the rows of hundreds of rocket scientists and engineers in the control room...their hard work for this task is worthy of the whole Remembered by mankind.
This film reminds me of many science fiction films about outer space that I have watched. "The Martian", "Apollo 13", "Interstellar Crossing"... Then I know that those science fiction plots are not groundless, nor are they all pure imagination. Even imagination does not matter, because human beings create reality from imagination. Those stars, those stars that we can only look up to, are our eternal journey, because only in this journey can we understand the meaning of mankind. In the last TV broadcast on the way back to Earth, Adelin said: "Looking back on the past few days, a verse from the hymn appeared in my mind: "I watch the sky created by your fingers and the moon and stars arranged by you. What, you miss him!'"
On the way home, the bright moon was shining in the night sky, shining rightly above our heads. To watch the sky and the sea of stars is what we humans mean.
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