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Sylvia 2022-09-11 22:24:42

So funny! Neil's moon landing has been described as a personal journey to death and mourning. A large number of compositions create a bonsai in a narrow frame surrounded by darkness, like a cramped spaceship, like the coffin of Neil's daughter. A large number of pictures of the spacecraft's lift-off and mission performed from the perspective of pure astronauts are in sharp contrast with the magnificence of the outside of the spacecraft and the universe in previous space films, which bring people oppression, fear, cramped vibration and vertigo. This is a declaration of war on all romantic heroic space movies! The relationship between Neil and his wife and children is real and complicated. Who said that a hero must have a good family? The fairy tale of a double harvest of love and career woven by a large number of boring film and television dramas was slapped in the face by the director. The adult world is not a fairy tale! Neil began estranged from his family after the Apollo 1 accident, and filled every inch of his life with a crazy career that is not afraid of death. Before the expedition, his relationship with his wife and children almost broke down. After returning to Earth, the two were separated by a thick wall. The glass plate seems to tell us: they are no longer a world person. NASA is completely hacked, and almost the entire film is made of mistakes or inaction. The fatal fault of Gemini is to escape from death purely by Neil's personal ability; even when Eagle landed on the moon, Buzz asked what the faults 1202 and 1201 represented, but the ground control could not answer. All in all: this is the story of the first human landing on the moon, told with enormous negative energy.

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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.