Today on Happy Second Fused, filmmaker Damien Chiselle takes Ryan Gosling and audiences to the moon with

First Man. Hey guys I'm Josh Harwood so welcome back to the show welcome to

another edition of Happy Sad Sad, Confused. On today's show, one of our greatest filmmakers

working today, he's obnoxiously young and talented, but we're going to just set that aside and just appreciate

what he is contributing to cinema, Damien Chiselle. His last three films are

Walla Land, Whiplash, and now First Man.

And I would put those three films up against any three in a row for any filmmaker today,

and you could even go back a significant time in history to look at a run like that early, especially early in a filmmaker's career.

Damon Chiselle is operating on a level that few filmmakers can aspire to.

And First Man is currently in theaters.

You've probably heard about it by now.

It is of course the true life tale of Neil Armstrong and the

insane endeavor to get to the moon for America to beat the Russians in the space race and to put a man on the moon.

We know where the story ends, but the story is unexpected in many ways.

It's a deeply personal film about a man and a family wrestling

with tragedy, surrounded by death,

surrounded by hardships, who persevers and focuses on one task that seems foolhardy at best and just impossible by most standards.

But again, we all know where this ends up.

And it's a thrilling movie.

I'm a big fan of this movie.

I've actually seen it three times.

And my appreciation actually has probably even grown

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