A lot can be said about this film. Without the slightest idea of the cosmos, of the moon, it would be possible to create something like this. In this film, you can see how the then man treated space flights, extraterrestrial civilizations. That’s why it’s such a fun story.
A group of scientists, arguing for a couple of minutes, came to the conclusion that you can get to the moon if you build a huge core, make a huge gun, and just shoot it at the moon. It sounds pretty funny, but it looks like... It is necessary to think up to such a thing to draw the moon in the form of a yellow face, and then make it so that this core hits it directly in the eye. It looks very funny. Thank goodness this is a fantastic film, not a documentary. So imagine the moon as if giant mushrooms are growing there, and some wild tribe lives there. Well, this, again, is explained by the fact that the man at that time was not sufficiently educated in the field of astronautics. For the time being, it was a breakthrough.
Speaking of breakthroughs. This, by the way, is one of the first feature films to have a specific plot. These are not the Lumières documentaries that filmed “life stories”, this film has a certain plot, which for that time is a big plus, and if you’re honest, it all looks quite interesting, even despite the nonsense that we are shown on the screen.
Summarizing this film, I want to say that of course this film has already become a classic of the fantastic genre, and one of its first representatives, for film critics and people of that time it is certainly a masterpiece, but for my generation of people it is no longer relevant, given that the first flight to the moon was made already forty years ago. But I still have to say thank you to Georges Méliès for such an original idea, and for bringing it to life.
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