First Man

2018 biographical movie about Neil Armstrong and the first moon landing.
==First watch (11th February 2019)==
Watched at Nishinomiya Kitaguchi cinema with Shane, James and Michael.
Very good, dramatic, I enjoyed the close personal perspective it maintained, even to the point of showing rocket launches just from the perspective of the command module most of the time. Made me question the worth of the Apollo missions for the first time, upon seeing the lives it claimed.
However, it was possibly a bit overdramatised, focusing so heavily on the loss of Armstrong's daughter as if that was the only event of his life that mattered to him, to the extent that he barely seemed to care about or even notice his wife and two sons. Plus, the constant shakey-cam was annoying.
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Category:Documentary films
Category:Biographical films
Category:2010s films
Category:Films watched in 2019
Category:Films with 1 rating