We're approaching the fiftieth anniversary

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2019)

With the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing approaching, I decided to watch Damien Chazelle's Academy Award-nominated "First Man". As with many movies about famous historical events, there's the focus on the ideation, planning, and completion of the event, as well as the personal life of the main person. I didn't expect any sort of masterpiece, but I did like the scene where the people protest to the tune of Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon" (about the lack of attention paid to people in the inner city). I guess the fact that the USSR sent the first satellite (Sputnik), first man (Yuri Gagarin), first woman (Valentina Tereshkova) and first dog (Laika) into space, but the US reached the moon first, it all balances out. I wonder if we'll ever have commercial space travel.
Anyway, worth seeing. Damien Chazelle previously cast Ryan Gosling in "La La Land", which I have no plans to ever see.