{"id":22133659,"date":"2025-02-10T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=22133659"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:10:33","slug":"sundance-film-review-sally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/sundance-film-review-sally\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance film review: ‘SALLY’"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Sally Ride was the first American woman to brave the final frontier and cement herself in the textbooks as an astronaut aboard NASA\u2019s space shuttle. Premiering for the first time at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Cristina Costantini\u2019s documentary \u201cSALLY\u201d encapsulates Ride\u2019s life and bold personality so clearly the viewer is left with a sense that Ride herself had been in the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cSALLY\u201d is a found-footage goldmine. The National Geographic film seamlessly mixes authentic audio clips of Ride telling her own story with videos taken in the 1980s to help the audience get an honest understanding of who this American hero was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The film starts with an up-close video of the shuttle blasting off, and the producers spared no detail in making it feel as though the viewers themselves were there on launch day. Thundering visuals and beautiful music illustrated the valiant power and allure behind witnessing a launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Using music from the decade, the film captures the feeling of being young and new to NASA with striking clarity. The surreal and dreamlike nature of what Ride must have felt in those first few days was presented brazenly on screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">While many space-race films focus on the fun, fast-paced innovations of space travel, \u201cSALLY\u201d does not diminish the struggles Ride persevered through during her training to become an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Real interviews expressed how Ride was blatantly faced with sexism from the media time and time again. The film portrayed her frustration at the misogyny in a way that was blunt and raw \u2014 no exaggeration was necessary to see how exasperated the continuous disrespect from reporters and NASA coworkers alike made the women candidates feel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Being the first American woman in space, the world wanted to get into the weeds of makeup, hair and motherhood instead of focusing on her inspiring tenacity. One scene reveals that when putting together her hygiene supplies for spaceflight, NASA engineers decided a makeup kit was what Ride would need most. The revelation was met with laughter from the audience at the sheer absurdity of it, but it was not a punchline. The reality was that some of the smartest men on Earth objectified Ride as the token woman used to help America forward in the space race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">At the same time, the film showcases just how quick-witted and confident Ride and her fellow candidates were in the face of adverse gender stereotyping. The film respected Ride\u2019s legacy by portraying her true personality throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">When Ride finally accomplishes her life goal and makes it to space, she\u2019s first shown eating colorful candies as they float in zero gravity, bringing us back to the innocence of her childhood dream. Satellite imagery paired with Ride\u2019s voiceovers captures what I assume is the best way to describe what seeing Earth from space is like. She described noticing how the land lacked arbitrary human borders. As a viewer, the breathtaking scene led me to wonder: If everyone could witness Earth from this perspective, would the world be a more peaceful place?<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The audience is swept along with the headstrong, cocky, competitive genius as she gets selected as an astronaut candidate, makes her way to space and solidifies her relationship with her partner.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Tam O’Shaughnessy was Ride\u2019s life partner of 27 years up until the end. O’Shaughnessy narrates most of the more intimately-known parts of Ride\u2019s life, giving the audience a peek into her personality as a human being as opposed to the widely known hero and role model.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The producers\u2019 storytelling through O’Shaughnessy\u2019s interviews gives the world a clear view for the first time of how challenging it was for Ride to hide her attraction to women while handling the pressure of being a role model for young girls throughout the country.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">When the two kiss, imagery of nebulas, stars and all things space captures the magnitude of the moment for the couple. Paired with microscopic visuals, the producers displayed the polarity of their work in space and biology while making the moment feel both big and small all at once.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The world mourned Ride\u2019s death along with her family. Ride lived as her authentic self, but if society could make someone so well-respected as a hero feel the need to hide a part of herself, is anyone truly safe from the constant pull to comply?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cSALLY\u201d is a story about change. Ride changed the hearts of many she worked with directly and even more whom she never met. Some assumed she was just a pretty face strapped into a rocket, but many grew to know her and left those misogynistic thoughts behind. Because of Ride\u2019s story and this adaptation of her life, people all over the world have seen what a woman can do, and women everywhere have benefited from her courage.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Ride was the first American woman to brave the final frontier and cement herself in the textbooks as an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891956,"featured_media":22133660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,35,17095],"tags":[15194,17122,57,17125,12805,17102,17123,17121,17124,385,17106],"class_list":["post-22133659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-reviews","category-sundance","tag-avery-truman","tag-documentary-review","tag-film-review","tag-muck","tag-national-geographic","tag-sally","tag-sally-review","tag-sally-ride","tag-sally-ride-film-review","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-sundance-film-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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