Movies have a very peculiar relationship with productions about astronauts. Always conflicted, troubling and nothing to lose mentality follows the space travelers from the core mission to their conclusion.

When astronauts face their reality up there, is when they find what they are missing, characters who are reckless, adventurous, genius or perhaps risk takers.
Gravity, 2001 Space Oddisey, Armageddon, The Right Stuff, The Martian, Planet of the Apes, Red Planet, The Cosmonauts are among the films presenting these courageous people.

Director Damien Chazelle embarked in one of the most ambitious films ever. The story of how Neil Amstrong reached the moon on First Man.

Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) is an X-15 pilot facing a very difficult time because his daughter is going thru treatment for a brain tumor. Amstrong is working very hard to figure out the problem by cataloging her symptoms and feverishly, sadly she died. After the loss of his child, he signs up for project Gemini, which is the beginning of the space program to orbit around the earth. Neil, his wife Janet (Claire Foy) and their son Rick move to Houston for Gemini. This is the beginning of a hard 5 years for Amstrong, their family and the rest of the astronauts who join the program, where controversy surrounds, the death of crew members due to test in several missions, the public protesting about the miss use of federal funding to send people to space without a clear vision from NASA and the inscrutability in the information provided to family members about the health of the astronauts.

Damien Chazelle does a great job laying out his vision about the space program, the technical aspects of the film are outstanding. However, the story felt short due to a lack of constant rhythm in the script. First Man started with a great pace but then slow down, come back again, and in the most important part of the story, is to short to enjoy it.

Clair Foy plays a strong wife and mother, that when she appeared on the screen can show everyone who is charge even the chief of the astronaut office.

First Man presents a hidden message about how our current administration is promoting the famous "Space Force", a project that none knows where is going and why we need it is just another excuse to get money to protect us from something that we don't know. According to the film, the '60s people were starving and without money for their necessities but the most important thing was to send "Whitey to the Moon"