Frau im Mond / Woman In The Moon (1929) :
Brief Review -
Sci-Fi master Fritz Lang's fascinating German moon trip - 40 years before Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission. Now take this only as a joke: Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon in 1969 in real life, but in the world of cinema, Georges Méliès did it in 1902 with "A Trip To The Man" and then Fritz Lang did it in 1929 with this film. What a goddamn coincidence that I had to see this film today, July 14, 2023, the day when my nation, India, launched Chandrayaan 3 mission. God has been too clever to arrange for that. Another coincidence is that the day after tomorrow we will celebrate the anniversary of Armstrong's moon landing. Master Fritz Lang changed the cinema world with his astonishing sci-fi masterpiece, "Metropolis" (1927), and only he was mad enough to think about Woman In The Moon. Today, we all know about the Moon, its atmosphere, soil, liquid, temperature, gravity, etc. We got to know a lot of things over the years, but one has to look at the information available in 1928, when Lang and team created this sci-fi flick. Many scenes from the film look rubbish today, but they made perfect fictional sense way back in time. Oxygen, water, gold, and gravity on the moon are the same as Earth on the moon in this movie, but now we know it's all fake because science has proved it. But in 1929, people weren't aware of all these things, so whatever Lang showed in this film can't be called rubbish, except for what's rubbish as per its time. The film has some flaws, for sure. The love triangle is loose; the sacrifice in the climax was better in the first place, but then the anti-climax came and spoiled it, and what happened to Professor Manfeldt after discovering Gold on the moon? The moon trip was more like a picnic here. No seriousness, but I agree, it's fascinating and visually appealing. Theoretically, Lang could have done better, but practically, he served up a mind-blowing sci-fi flick.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.
Sci-Fi master Fritz Lang's fascinating German moon trip - 40 years before Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission. Now take this only as a joke: Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon in 1969 in real life, but in the world of cinema, Georges Méliès did it in 1902 with "A Trip To The Man" and then Fritz Lang did it in 1929 with this film. What a goddamn coincidence that I had to see this film today, July 14, 2023, the day when my nation, India, launched Chandrayaan 3 mission. God has been too clever to arrange for that. Another coincidence is that the day after tomorrow we will celebrate the anniversary of Armstrong's moon landing. Master Fritz Lang changed the cinema world with his astonishing sci-fi masterpiece, "Metropolis" (1927), and only he was mad enough to think about Woman In The Moon. Today, we all know about the Moon, its atmosphere, soil, liquid, temperature, gravity, etc. We got to know a lot of things over the years, but one has to look at the information available in 1928, when Lang and team created this sci-fi flick. Many scenes from the film look rubbish today, but they made perfect fictional sense way back in time. Oxygen, water, gold, and gravity on the moon are the same as Earth on the moon in this movie, but now we know it's all fake because science has proved it. But in 1929, people weren't aware of all these things, so whatever Lang showed in this film can't be called rubbish, except for what's rubbish as per its time. The film has some flaws, for sure. The love triangle is loose; the sacrifice in the climax was better in the first place, but then the anti-climax came and spoiled it, and what happened to Professor Manfeldt after discovering Gold on the moon? The moon trip was more like a picnic here. No seriousness, but I agree, it's fascinating and visually appealing. Theoretically, Lang could have done better, but practically, he served up a mind-blowing sci-fi flick.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.