Otimo, mas com pequenos problemas

Rating: 8/10 (23 October 2018)

We were all anxious to see Damien Chazelle's new feature, which now runs from his comfort zone and makes a film with no relation to music. First we can say that "The First Man" is a record film all dramatized and with some poetic liberties, Damien did not write the gross script of the film, only made slight changes, and this is noticeable, since its script is not playful and extremely doable with the real events, which ends up leaving the film often monotonous, but it is important to remember that it is not an adventure or a fiction, the story though incredible, is boring in between, but even with these adversities the film has a lot of quality. Damien tells the story of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon, a story that has been told before in the cinema, but never as pure as now, in the free spaces, Damien ends up trying to humanize the film and create dramas, precisely , to be a movie, in the purest act of the word, this even works in some points, in others not, because they are 2 main nuclei of drama, Neil with his fear and losses and Neil with his family, the second nucleus does not work. The film tries to discuss some morals, about loss and contemplation, but everything is thrown and suffocated by the prime objective of the movie that is to tell about the going of the man to the moon. Ryan Gosling can not express anything when his dramatic side is required and ends up not helping Damien to explore another dramatic strand in the film, as Claire Foy, who also has a dramatic core in the film, ultimately catches up with the viewer, pillar of support of the film, more for its performance than for the script. Technically, Damien gives a show apart, mainly in the use of the cameras, aspect that had already been highly praised in his previous works, the scenes inside the ships are stifling, claustrophobic, beautiful, tense and full of adrenaline, mainly by the use of his the film is always directed at shoulder height, with many mid-plane scenes, gray photography, the artistic direction of the film is really great, which ends up often compensating for the slow pace of the movie that uncomfortable, slow pace that is due to the script and assemblies that confuse and misconceive their acts to the viewer. Another relevant point is the sound of the film, great mixing and editing of sweeping sound, strong competitors to the oscar, since we speak of sound, the film trail has the face of Damien, extremely playful and little epic, works well with the attempt to humanization of the film, however, could have a hint of the epic factor, alias, we are exploring another planet -Satellite in this case. "The First Man" is a great movie, which ends up having low points in the performance and at its own pace, but it is a great reconstruction of Apollo 11, an incredible story with its most important points well recorded and a very high level technique.