Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In the film "The Right Stuff", both USSR and US were competing against each other in many different things. One of the competitions were trying to be faster than the speed of sound/light. In which they put a pilot in a plane and try to go faster than the speed of sound/light. They also competed in the first man to go into space. The US were getting ready to put a group of men into space however scared that something might go wrong, they sent a monkey up there first. Doing this gave the USSR the advantage to go into space first. Making the US look stupid for sending a monkey up there. A few weeks later the US went to space also. The scenes that they put of Russia, where it was pretty dark and mysterious will always remind me of the Cold War. This is because they made Russia seem so bad and such enemies.