The moon, desolate and beautiful.
In the thousands of years of human civilization recorded, so far only 12 people have set foot on the moon, and Neil Armstrong is one of them, also "First Man".
The biopic "First Man on the Moon" reinterprets the legendary astronaut's journey to the moon. Using a little-known historical fact, director Damien Chazelle made a tearful, high-quality story.
Everyone in the world knows that on July 20, 1969, Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. The phrase "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" has become a household name.
When people thought that "First Man on the Moon" was a movie made around this famous quote, the story time came to 1962. At that time, Armstrong was at a turning point in his career. His daughter Karen died suddenly. With infinite pain, he went to NASA and started a new career.
In reality, Armstrong's two-year-old daughter did die of a brain tumor in 1962. The specific level of grief should be similar to Ryan Gosling's close-up interpretation.
The description of Armstrong's journey to the moon in "First Man" is basically consistent with history. He first participated in the "Gemini" plan, and finally stood out among the candidates and became the main soldier of the moon landing plan.
Before entering NASA, he was an exceptionally good pilot.
During the Korean War in 1951, his plane flew back to his area when the enemy was hit. He had to choose to eject the badly damaged aircraft, which can be imagined in a rather dire situation. Fortunately, after he finally landed safely, he was brought back to the base by his comrades.
The film doesn't talk about his time in the military, but uses an accidental incident when he was serving as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base after he was discharged to illustrate his natural talent for dealing with emergencies calmly.
Some editorials say that Armstrong is a low-key and humble person.
During his time as a pilot, he accomplished as much as he did during his military days. Before leaving, he had piloted and tested more than 200 models and had a flight time of 2,450 hours. He also flew a plane over the edge of the atmosphere at 4,000 mph. His record was once considered a must-have for future astronauts.
However, he did not show the feeling of being a "big name" in the slightest. He studied and trained like other astronauts, and Ryan Gosling, who plays him, is seriously inconsistent in appearance, but has the same temperament, taciturn, calm and decisive.
It is reasonable for such an outstanding pillar of the country to be selected to participate in the entire moon landing program. Entering NASA was an important turning point in Armstrong's life, but the moon landing plan, like his life, was full of ups and downs.
In March 1966, during Project Gemini, Armstrong served as command pilot, partnering with David Scott on a space mission. "The First Man on the Moon" turned this incident into a "midpoint scene". The two encountered an accident after completing the first orbital docking in history. The docked spacecraft suddenly began to spin rapidly, causing a burst of dizziness. , Armstrong once again relied on his extraordinary crisis handling ability to avoid danger.
He was questioned by some afterwards, perhaps because of the accident, he failed to become the main astronaut of the Apollo 1 program in 1967.
The so-called lost horse is not a blessing. He failed to become an astronaut on Apollo 1, but Armstrong escaped.
The Apollo program was hit hard not long after it began. On the eve of preparation for liftoff, three astronauts suffered a fire accident in the space capsule, and no one survived.
Fate is so magical, if Armstrong's mission in the Gemini program goes well and is selected as the Apollo 1 astronaut, history will be rewritten in an instant, "That's one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind. "This "improvisational line" may no longer exist.
The core of "First Man on the Moon" is actually a family drama. The story line of his wife Janet and the story line of the moon landing complement each other. Armstrong once faced the dual pressure of career and family.
In order to match the happy ending of the successful moon landing, the movie did not tell the story of him and his wife. The daughter's bracelet became a key prop, implying the pain and price behind the success of the moon landing.
In reality, the departure of his two-year-old daughter did have a huge impact on Armstrong. It is said that the father would look at his daughter's past photos in a daze.
Whether it was before or after the moon landing, he was often withdrawn from his family and indulged in his busy work. At the end of 1989, his wife Janet finally "couldn't bear it" and asked for a divorce. Five years later, their marriage broke down completely.
"Our marriage, like a failed flight, collapsed silently," Armstrong once said.
Landed on the moon, but ruined the family, even if the movie did a "de-heroization" treatment and aggravated Armstrong's fatherhood, he was still a hero. Heroes are mostly lonely, and the scars behind their glory are often unimaginable to ordinary people.
He and Buzz Aldrin landed like superheroes fighting, fraught with endless danger. The lunar module's automated systems veered off course, taking them to a huge crater with steep slopes that made it impossible to land.
At this time, Armstrong firmly believed in his own judgment as before, switched to manual control, and went around to a safer place to land. The final climax of "The First Man on the Moon" highly restored the thrilling level of the landing at that time.
A lunar crater near where he landed was also named "Mount Armstrong" by later generations.
After becoming a national hero, Armstrong chose to keep a low profile, rejected almost all commercial endorsements, and continued to focus on aerospace work. When he found out that his signature was maliciously used for trading, he refused to sign for others.
To be able to maintain such rationality after having such achievements, I have to say that God really did not choose the wrong person.
Armstrong died on August 25, 2012, at the age of 82, from complications following heart bypass surgery. The footprints he left on the moon may have vanished, but his name is immortalized in the annals of human civilization.
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