Legato Endless
2017-01-07, 01:55 PM
I liked it. As comedy docu-dramas go, one could do a lot worse.
It's excellent seeing some light shed on the lesser known history of the Space Race, a film that unabashedly celebrates the genius of it's characters. Being historic, we aren't pestered with clichés about how their intelligence has left them painfully unadjusted, a trope that still appears with some annoying frequency in fiction.
The film also averts having an easy villain. We don't get an easy malicious figure to hate, the closest we come is a man peevishly insecure about being shown up by the lead. Instead the structural racism of the times is the real antagonist, that everyone else has to accept or struggle against in various turns.
It's excellent seeing some light shed on the lesser known history of the Space Race, a film that unabashedly celebrates the genius of it's characters. Being historic, we aren't pestered with clichés about how their intelligence has left them painfully unadjusted, a trope that still appears with some annoying frequency in fiction.
The film also averts having an easy villain. We don't get an easy malicious figure to hate, the closest we come is a man peevishly insecure about being shown up by the lead. Instead the structural racism of the times is the real antagonist, that everyone else has to accept or struggle against in various turns.