![]() What initially sounded absurd becomes romantic, and the movie takes on the kind of optimistic, utopian glow that used to be a part of really great science fiction and the bright-and-shiny futurism of Walt Disney. Nothing is ever heightened or exaggerated, just comically goosed, and at a certain point, their love of the moon becomes contagious. There’s even a former astronaut who paints moon-centered landscapes, using moon dust from his space suit and impressions from his moon boots to give the paintings texture.Įnnis is careful to accentuate these peoples’ eccentricities without ever explicitly making fun of them, using text and graphics to keep things moving. ![]() This lively documentary, which will air later this year on the Epix satellite channel, focuses on a handful of Americans deeply obsessed with the moon including: a strange, autistic man with a genius-level intellect and a wonderful collection of paisley vests, who wants to be the first person to leave the Earth and never return a Milwaukee retiree who devotes almost all of his free time to a moon-centric newsletter that contemplates what it’s like to, say, garden up there (he also designs subterranean habitats for the moon-dwellers) and a man who claims to be the owner of the moon, selling off parcels of land to those interested in lunar development.
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