He went to the moon just to escape the earth and the scars of life, and when we ordinary people want to escape the earth, we can only choose Death, here the moon symbolizes death.įrom this perspective alone, "First Man" is like the moon landing version of " Manchester by the Sea ", which is also the theme of mourning brought out by dead children, and the direction of the story is accompanied by an external event-The former is to land on the moon, the latter is to deal with his brother’s funeral and rebuild the relationship with his nephew, so as to face the character’s scars, and in the end, they can only wander in a middle ground between self-reconciliation and despair.īut I also think there is a problem with the execution of the film. 's first use of his daughter's death as the motive for Neil Armstrong's moon landing is novel enough in itself, but he's not like many of the commercials we've seen heal wounds inside small families with big external moves like "moon landing", but Trying to combine the two images of the dead girl and the moon to tell us that Neil's scars cannot be healed. In fact, "Blacking Drummer" and "La La Land" are only exquisite commercial genre films, and just as " The True Story of A Fei " is to Wong Kar-wai, "First Man" is Damien Chazelle's entry A high-scoring answer sheet for the ranks of film writers.
But on the contrary, what I see in this film is a result of an anti-theme and not motivated by the anti-theme.Īlthough the degree of completion is probably the lowest in Chazelle's own directing sequence, when he jumped out of the familiar theme of jazz, " First Man " showed the strongest sense of authorship. In my expectation, it is an Austrian theme film created by Chazelle with the work accumulated in the previous two films. On the one hand, I think Chazelle's first two movies " Drummer " and " Philharmonic City " are neat and lacking in aftertaste. I didn't expect much before watching this movie. It was also the first human member to leave footprints on an extraterrestrial body. Neil Alden Armstrong was the first astronaut to set foot on the moon on July 21, 1969, while serving on the and NASA's. United States | Japanese biography/drama/historical film "First Man", released in 2018, directed by Damien Chazelle, James Henson, Josh Singer screenplay, film The story focuses on the life of Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to land on the moon in human history.