"First Man". OMG what a film

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

11. I felt like a major subtext was "Man Is First; Woman, Second... If That."

Which was very much the world of the 1960s generally and NASA even moreso at the time, derivative as the space program was from its twin masculine foundations of military culture and the STEM professions.

Claire Foye did well at representing how constricting if not suffocating it was for a human being to try to fill that specific, very tightly defined, unprecedentedly public role of 1960s hero astronaut's wife. Esp. a hero as big and emotionally distant as Neil Armstrong.

It all did make for a chilly movie. But appropriately so. Travelling out of earth orbit and trying to step onto a cold, sterile rock in space 1/4 million miles away is itself quite a sobering, spine-chilling undertaking.

First Man's depiction of the lunar surface was beautiful work. I enjoyed Gravity, too.

I'm a proud ex NASA employee myself; was new with them when the 1st Space Shuttle went up.

If I had my way about $150 billion of DoD's annual budget would be appropriated to NASA instead.