Make a biographical film into an author's film

Rating: 7/10 (3 April 2020)

To say why "First Man" inspired my desire to express so much, it should be because this movie allows me to enjoy the ample fun of interpreting the movie.
After watching the movie, I wiped out very emotional tears, and quickly hit the five stars. First of all, this film really touched me on the emotional level. Two nights after watching the movie, I turned over and over in bed to think about every plot and every shot to understand what the director wanted to express, and I think I got a more self-consistent logic. I found a sufficient reason for my touching.
In short, this is not my first attempt to decipher the hidden password in the movie, but this is my first strong urge to write something.
In the play-focus on the individual's heart from the background of the grand story
The outline said that the movie watching experience when watching "First Man" reminded me of Rome. Both are focused on an individual in a macro era environment. The main line of "First Man" is about the story of landing on the moon, but the difference is whether it is "the story of the first man on the moon" or "the story of this man on the moon." The film obviously pays more attention to this individual and tries to ignore the entire human Category. For this reason, the film shows a lot of family dramas that have nothing to do with landing on the moon.
When it comes to family, it involves a theme of death in the film. The death of the daughter is crucial here. This is the beginning of Neal 's estrangement from the family and the world. In fact, he is indulging in a sense of absence. This feeling runs through the whole film, and the clues of the daughter have been embellished in the film, including the daughter The chain, seeing the swings that I knew before, and most obviously Neil stared at her daughter 's bed many times, and often dreamed that her daughter was beside him. Later, his colleagues' deaths also affected him to varying degrees. The key is that the deaths in the whole film also helped Neil step on the moon landing step by step, so the moon landing became Neil's A journey of mourning with death as a stake.
In the end, he landed on the moon, which is the most important scene in the film and the closing of the theme of death. The camera circled 360 degrees around Neil's endless void, the white and cold everything on the moon. At this time, he stood in front of a huge pit, just like the beginning of the film he looked at his daughter's tomb slowly, Tossed off her daughter's bracelet and gave it back to her, completing her final tribute to her.
Listen to it-Focus on the enclosed cabin environment from the infinite exploratory universe
In the movies of space, the display of outer space and spacecraft is often the spectacle itself, which is the selling point. In "First Man", we can hardly see the magnificent landscape. The director used his unique set of audio-visual systems to try to go Wonderful space movie shooting.