Product: For All Mankind [VHS] (1989)
Rating: 5.0
Some reviewers missed the point
Some have dubiously criticized "For All Mankind" for being inaccurate, because it's a pastiche of footage from different NASA missions (mostly Apollo) edited together as a single moonshot.These people completely missed the point. I think it's obvious that Al Reinert deliberately chose not to take a purely historical approach, which I found refreshing. He was trying to convey the experience of leaving the earth and walking on another world, the mysteries of the universe vicariously through the astronauts in a spiritual and aesthetic way; not to present a factual account or chronology of historical events. There are plenty of other documentaries about the Moon landing available to fill that need. I found it moving and beautiful. Mystery is the soul of beauty, to paraphrase Einstein.Brian Eno's music is perfect, too -- haunting and dreamlike. It's available on his ambient "Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks" CD for any interested.