【】All of which just means that when

First Man 。is a big film about the small things that went into an enormous event. 。

It's no spoiler that the climax here is Neil Armstrong's 1969 walk on the moon. For the first 90 minutes, though, First Man 。holds back on the inherent drama of that premise.
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It follows Neil (Ryan Gosling) as he makes his way through the NASA ranks, and at home as he mourns the death of his young daughter. It spends time on a bunch of promising missions that go nowhere, and on complex questions the engineers will have to solve. There's some action sprinkled in there, and a few precious moments of euphoria. Mostly, it's sweating the small stuff. 。

That choice is puzzling at first, even frustrating: We know the guy gets to the moon, so let's get on with it already! Why are we wasting time with all this minutiae? Why are we wasting time with all this minutiae?

But those tedious concerns and disappointing dead ends are exactly the point.。 First Man
。is about work, and more specifically about the enormous amount of work (and luck) that goes into an achievement as momentous as the moon landing. It demands patience, but it gave back what I put into it several times over.
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A rocket takes off in First Man.Credit: Warner Bros.。

Director Damien Chazelle keeps his eye on the unromantic details that usually get glossed over in retellings of historical events. Literally: Much of this movie is composed of shots of dials, switches, and the top half of Gosling's face. The vast expanse of outer space is usually shown from the ground, or from the dinky scratched-up windows of a rocket. 。

First Man doesn't just show us what it looks like to go to the moon. It considers how it must have felt to go to the moon. 。 All of which just means that when。All of which just means that when。

First Man。

does go big, it feels immense. I saw the film in IMAX, and for much of its runtime I wondered why they'd bothered – the jumbo screen wasn't really adding anything to the shaky view from inside a cramped spaceship, or the extreme close-ups of rivets and screws.
。Then when the IMAX sequence kicked in, and I knew right away that I'd be seeing this again when it opened, and on the biggest IMAX screen I could find. 。 First Man。First Man 。

doesn't just show us what it looks like to go to the moon. It considers how it must have。

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