Much more than just Jim Carrey

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2020)

What delights me in the works of Milos Forman is his repeated usage of same actors. In this case positive "surprise" was Danny De Vito, who appeared also in "One flew over cuckoo's nest", and Vincent Schiavelli who appeared also in "Taking off","...cuckoo's nest" and "Amadeus". Spectator can hence follow the aging processess of those actors and that is why Forman-movies have that peculiar feeling of "formanian".
Hitchcock, Tarantino and Lynch have used same method with great success.
Secondly, the name of the movie can be interpreted as a comment to Stanley Kubrick's faked moon landing conspiracy theory. Did US had technology to send a man on the moon? The event was a complete joke, directed by Kubrick. That explains why Forman chose Courtney Love to this movie, because Courtney allegedly whacked his husband Kurt Cobain and never got caught. In the Milos Forman's "Larry Flynt vs People", the film after this, Courtney Love appears again in a role of sex club dancer without moral principle.