“First Man” begins with a dull mechanical hum that eventually becomes a bone-shaking, jarring mixture of rattling mechanical sounds and the hard breathing of a man whose eyes are bright and blue as the horizon. Something is wrong and he’s bouncing off the atmosphere in his airplane to an uncertain fate when he realizes the problem and brings himself safely down to the cracked, decades dried mud of the California desert.

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