![]() It’s that the jittery energy on display is essentially industrial. It’s not just that the ride is more rough-and-tumble, and more starkly terrifying, than anything we’ve seen in a drama of space flight before. ![]() When Armstrong ( Ryan Gosling), his body wedged into the claustrophobic compartment of a Gemini space capsule, takes off, the craft he’s on shakes so violently it feels like it’s going to burst apart. It’s closer to being trapped in some purgatory of explosive dread. But in “ First Man,” Damien Chazelle’s turbulently spectacular and enthralling drama about Neil Armstrong and his journey through the space program of the 1960s, there’s nothing tranquil or reassuring about riding in a dirty cramped rocket ship surrounded by buttons and dials. ![]() Space travel, in the popular imagination, has always been depicted as something mystically removed from life on earth - a realm of gliding majesty, free of the friction that weighs us all down. ![]()
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