"First Man on the Moon" movie review

Reyes 2022-11-12 02:44:02

Won the Best Visual Effects Award at the 91st Academy Awards in 2019. Different from the main theme, the film focuses on depicting Armstrong's emotions, family, career and social pressures, the sadness of his daughter's death from 1961 to the successful landing on the moon on July 21, 1969, and repeated accidents during the test. , colleagues sacrificed one by one; his wife's emotions were close to collapse; after repeated failures, nearly half of the people in the United States opposed the social pressure of the moon landing program to burn money. In the 1960s, the technology was backward, astronauts had to test visual inspections and manual calculation reports in space, and instrument failures occurred frequently. After the first major accident in the film, he escaped from death with excellent ability and experience, and a calm mind, but Faced with the public's doubts about whether there is any operational error, it is very depressing; during the test, the screws failed, there were flies in the space capsule, and the equipment always had inexplicable failures, and everyone who watched it panicked; about to start the moon landing A few hours before the trip, his wife quarreled with him "I've had enough!", I was so angry, woman, you let your man carry out a big task with emotional pressure? In the end, he finally landed on the moon and made the first footprints of mankind. In this place farthest from his family, but closest to his daughter, he left her daughter's bracelet in the crater, as if he had buried the past and could not let go of sadness. No flags, no impassioned, all you see is a man alive, but he's a hero

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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.