la la landing

oops i forgot to "review" this it's really good and i cried like a banshee at the end (which is starting to happen more and more as my brain wilts in my old age) and then i've spent the last week trying to sort out if Chazelle actually earned that ending and then i realized i don't think i care? i dread having to have that conversation for the next 5 months, but such is the life i've chosen.

anyway, the music fucks. that much i know for sure.

An engineer witnesses the death of a child and can't help but see it as a failure of technical precision and imagination. He willfully isolates himself in an effort to prove it, and through sheer obsessive will and technical process orchestrates a relatively pointless and performative but nonetheless very cathartic and very real miracle to see it through. He achieves the metaphysical and by the end is still isolated. What a sad fucking movie.

neil: i love you to the moon and back
janet: prove it

Man, being an astronaut looks way less fun than I used to think.

fucked up if true

‪first man is about GRIEF it is about MASCULINITY but most importantly it is about justin hurwitz BLASTING THE FUCKING SYNTHS WHEN THE EAGLE TOUCHES DOWN ON THE MOON BABY‬

*blows a kiss to the moon* for ryan gosling

i saw myself when neil stands outside, holding his telescope, staring into space. grief is too much, people are too much, it’s so easy for the relentless trauma to overwhelm. sometimes we just need to stare off into the sky, and dream. the power of this movie is that it makes you believe that you can find your catharsis, even in the worst tragedies. it makes you dream for a future where you’re okay.

tired: stanley kubrick faked the moon landing
wired: damien chazelle faked the moon landing

Technically really solid. Linus Sandgren really rocks the cinematography on this. He loves his Camtec Vintage Series Ultra Primes.

Here's an article on it: www.camtec.tv/news/2017/7/18/linus-sandgren-fsf-on-joy-camtec-vintage-ultra-primes-in-icg-magazine

Saw it on the big screen at DGA West which means I did not see the end sequence in IMAX. But honestly, I've never fancied format changes (that alter the aspect ratio) in films so happy to see it all at 2.39.

you ever go to the moon just to flex on the Soviet Union?