Linklater's childhood nostalgia, a little bit of fantasy and an almost documentary-like record of the moon landing using partially rotoscoped animation. Linklater's laid back vibing through events usually works very well for me but here I felt it didn't fully connect with me. It was nice but the nostalgia is not overtly romanticized nor is it broken down but it doesn't feel like it found a comfortable middle ground either. It felt like it was a bit confused about itself. Since the narration is by a grown-up version of the protagonist, the politics touched upon felt very weird considering it's not entirely a child's view anymore and yet doesn't have any position at all in it. There may be also the fact that I'm not American and the cultural events that would be very precious to many don't mean that much to me personally that made my mind wander through all these thoughts when the focus should've been on the central events.
