The lyrics of Bob Dylan’s ‘It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’ is a glittering quilt of diamond-sharp phrases, including, “He not busy being born is busy dying,” “Money doesn’t talk, it swears,” and “Even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.” Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon , brings to mind other lines from the 1965 masterpiece, “Advertising signs they con/ You into thinking you’re the one/ That can do what’s never been done/ That can win what’s never been won/ Meantime life outside goes on/ All around you.” While you might feel it is a stretch to set the screwball romantic comedy against the lyrics of a Nobel Laureate, it does work when you see Scarlett Johansson as Kelly Jones tip-tapping on her high heels in the corridors of power bedazzling the silly suits with one outrageous scam after another till she meets one that just might be too big even for her.
At the height of space race, in the 1960s, as the USSR zooms ahead, NASA is trying to make good on President Kennedy’s promise of putting a man on the moon before the decade is over. Apollo 11 is to be the first manned spaceflight to the moon. Headed by Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), it is a race against time.
With the honeymoon period over and the war in Vietnam, the space programme is understaffed and underfunded. A still from ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ That is when a Washington fixer, Moe Berkus (Woody Harrelson) decides to hire Kelly to sell the m.
