The Point

The main point of the movie overall is triumph in the face of disappointment, fear and failure. Which is essentially what America had to learn to overcome during the Cold War and the arms race and space race. We had to learn to get over the fear, and we had to learn to get over disappointment. In the end, no one blew us up, and we got a man on the moon. I realize that no one thought everything was going to go as perfect as it ended up going, but thats a good lesson that the movie demonstrates. Happy endings are sometimes a reality, and when the US reached the moon first, we sort of ended up winning the space race and that was essentially the beginning of the end of our fear. There was quite a lot more to it, but realizing that we still had power to affect our own change was a big factor that dominated, and still to this day dominates our society and our culture as the United States of America. The movie October Sky was the perfect was to show this, as at the very end, Homer figure out his rocket, and launches it in front of his whole town, and him and his father patch up their relationship and he lets his father hit the launch button. Everything worked out in the movie, and everything worked out for America.