Being the first man walking on the moon is a very great and big achievement for the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, that leads him to be such a famous and important man, but doing such a dangerous mission fulls of sacrifies and challenges for both NASA and Neil Armstrong himself, from the beginning till achieving the mission successfully.
Chazelle has made a grippingly nitty-gritty procedural that sees the space race as a window into Armstrong's unknowable mind, an inner space as mysterious as the outer one he blasts himself into.
First Man is a technically accomplished story of how far one man will go to avoid handling his emotions, dressed up as the story of mankind's mission to the moon.
As Chazelle oscillates between documenting NASA's many missteps and peering behind the curtain of the Armstrongs' domestic lives, he conjures the type of cinematic high any filmgoer has been chasing since they first stepped inside a theatre.
In making the story intimate, closely-focused, and human-oriented, Chazelle reminds us in First Man just what an amazing accomplishment walking on the moon was.
Whatever its missteps, "First Man" represents a principled attempt to reconsider what heroism looks and sounds like, to think beyond the reductive rah-rah parameters that have led so many to confuse jingoism with art.
