Fellow astronauts and pilots, as well as Republican politicians, have criticised Hollywood's seventy-million-dollar depiction of the first Moon landing, which fails to show Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin planting the US flag. Others have described the "First Man" movie as "anti-American." At the Venice film festival, Ryan Gosling, who plays Armstrong in the film, ignited controversy by describing the American achievement as "transcending countries and borders."
The story has been running in the US for several days, but here is a summary in
The Daily Telegraph (London):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...eaves-us-flag/