{"id":13933,"date":"2019-02-28T22:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13933"},"modified":"2019-02-28T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:01:44","slug":"first-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/first-man\/","title":{"rendered":"First Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;When you get a different vantage point it changes your perspective. I don&#8217;t know what space exploration will uncover, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be exploration just for the sake of exploration. I think it&#8217;ll be more the fact that it allows us to see things that maybe we should&#8217;ve seen a long time ago but just haven&#8217;t been able to until now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Man<\/strong>, released in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Neil Armstrong joins the Gemini program at NASA. There&#8217;s a bunch of things they need to figure out before they can move on to Apollo and head to the Moon &#8212; like EVA and getting 2 ships to dock. Being an astronaut is extremely hard work, both mentally and physically. Tragically, Neil&#8217;s young daughter has died of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>It is, of course, based on a true story &#8212; more specifically, it&#8217;s based on Armstrong&#8217;s authorized biography.<\/p>\n<p>They show things in a realistic way. If you liked <strong>Apollo 13<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll like this movie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about what it&#8217;s like to be an astronaut, what it&#8217;s like to be an astronaut&#8217;s wife, and the bravery needed for both.<\/p>\n<p>Star Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy. Directed by Damien Chazelle (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/la-la-land\/\"><strong>La La Land<\/strong><\/a>). The score by Justin Hurwitz includes the theremin, an instrument Neil Armstrong liked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;When you get a different vantage point it changes your perspective. I don&#8217;t know what space exploration will uncover, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be exploration just for the sake of exploration. I think it&#8217;ll be more the fact that it allows us to see things that maybe we should&#8217;ve seen a long time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-13933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13933"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}