Humanisation of the first extraterrestrial human

Rating: 7/10 (17 October 2018)

Whiplash meant the discovery of a new very talented filmmaker and ... what a talent.
Then La la land happened. Having Whiplash in his filmography, I thought... "gush, what a great musical will emerge from this one" and it did. But then the Oscar's came and... "gush, what a shame". A shame not for the fact that "La la land" did not win but for the entire Oscar thing and what it means. And it means a lot for many people. Moonlight was a great winner. Well... Damian had that face that says "this is not happening" as in a trauma thing. And indeed it would've been a trauma for anyone. A complete nightmare. Even so, I think the guys did manage to act as normal as possible.
And now "First man" - Neil as a human. An extraterrestrial human. A lot of moments where feelings are trying to come to life but very few manage to reach a certain degree of life. And having children dying in a story would make anyone have some feelings - Damian thought of this. Of course. But I am talking about the other ones, not the obvious ones. And with this Nail fails to make me follow him in his trying to get on the moon. I was astonished by the amount of information that should've come to me as a viewer (to help me remain with the story)... did not do that in the end. In this regards, I felt that Damian is trying to defend a lie that he (himself) didn't find the strength to believe in. Or couldn't find it. I have a feeling many scenes were cut at the editing table.
If the president of America can talk about an important moment in the movie and not realizing that he is not doing any favor for the movie then I can talk about it here as well: the flag moment. Or the absence of it. Having saying things about not having the strength to believe in a lie... the flag proves it clearly that... Damian couldn't defend himself from looking ridiculous in front of the people that understand what a possible truth means, if he would've inserted the moment. And there are many people like this out there - Americans or non-Americans. The presence of the absence of a moment like this made him credible in his trying to truly be sincere to his way of saying a story - the documentary style that he chose for the movie. But they made it clear when asked by the media what is the directorial reason behind the absence of a moment like it and the answer was more than reasonable - "Armstrong did not say '....a giant leap for America'" He said indeed humanity. And humanity it was indeed: the entire world was watching the way America was becoming great!
So what is about this movie about the "First man" on the moon? Felt like I am watching lots of documentary stile shots, where a man doesn't have to try to look human at all because he is human by default. It's not the fact that I can't believe in the movie out of disrespect of what America became with Trump in office (and I am not saying Trump who is a Republican, I am saying Trump as someone who doesn't have the slightest idea how much harm he can do saying stuff that can hurt people and make people lose hope), I am not saying it from the angle of a reasonable human being that finds hard to believe we never been to the moon (it's not my job to question the reason of such a big lie[tho, the republicans that will read this will find hard to believe me not because they CAN'T but because they don't WANT)... I am saying it from the angle of a man who thinks Damian lost his genius, having as proof everything that happends on the screen, because of a moment like the Oscar moment. Not because he didn't win. But because the moment happened. That very wrong moment of two old people that couldn't understand how to read a piece of paper.
Great acting, would've expect more from Hollywood in terms of music (especially for the fact that Spielberg is executive for this one), wanna-be-strong script. I am giving 7 stats out of respect for Damian.
I will continue to follow this great filmmaker in search of all the great emotions he brought doing Whiplash and of course... La la land. This means I will buy next time a cinema ticket as well. And yes. I went to see this movie in the cinema out of respect for Damian and his previous work.