Chernobyl gets the job done. Despite being severely fictionalized, often misleading and factually inaccurate, and clearly designed for an American audience, this miniseries creates a haunting, emotional depiction of the horrors of nuclear energy that essentially hits the mark. The impact will be greatest for those who have not seen or read anything about it before. Ironically, it emphasises communistic Russia as the reason for corruption, propaganda and the perversion of justice - yet the very same tragedies surround us at the hands of capitalistic power and corruption.
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Godspeed? Seriously?
20 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I love the Star Wars universe. I can easily overlook most of the criticisms from high-maintenance fans but when Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo utters the words 'godspeed' I cringed like never before! The singlemost inappropriate, out of context line in any Star Wars film ever. It made Jar Jar Binks look like creative genius. They may as well have said 'Like, you do the math' while Miley Cyrus played on the radio. It's so embarrassingly out of place for non-Americans and everyone else in the universe that the writer should be fired and then tortured by made to watch Michael Bay movies on repeat. Other than that the movie was friggin awesome!
Hiroshima
(2005 TV Movie)
A well made documentary with glaring shortcomings of bias
7 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Although this is a well made documentary incorporating archive footage, interviews and 'dramatizations', it seems to me to be yet another example of the victors re-writing history. If I was a bomb- obsessed war-monger that wanted to conduct the ultimate experiment in nuclear technology and military power, even when it was not necessary, I would make a film like this to justify my actions and help make an entire nation feel much better about committing mass murder. This has been the official line since the bombs were dropped and they have successfully convinced most people that they were absolutely necessary. Otherwise, the idea of murdering close to 200,000 civilians is just impossible to confront. I think this is encapsulated by the poor, tight-lipped pilot who stubbornly refuses to have any emotion or doubt about his actions. This film seems to be for people like him.
It's almost certain that these bombs were unnecessary. Thousands of tonnes of bombs had already been dropped, the Soviets had become involved and Japan was beaten. Weeks earlier, on July 12, 1945, Hirohito revealed that he was ready to end the war as long as the monarchy be granted immunity from war crimes - The US only accepted these conditions after dropping two atomic bombs on the country. One bomb was unnecessary, the second was borderline sadistic. Truman and others kept bumping up estimates of lives saved to a million, while military documents suggested 46,000 as a worst case scenario. There is virtually no mention of these circumstances in the film which demonstrates clear bias. If you come away thinking it was necessary, then the film has successfully deceived you, but it has failed as a documentary.
It's almost certain that these bombs were unnecessary. Thousands of tonnes of bombs had already been dropped, the Soviets had become involved and Japan was beaten. Weeks earlier, on July 12, 1945, Hirohito revealed that he was ready to end the war as long as the monarchy be granted immunity from war crimes - The US only accepted these conditions after dropping two atomic bombs on the country. One bomb was unnecessary, the second was borderline sadistic. Truman and others kept bumping up estimates of lives saved to a million, while military documents suggested 46,000 as a worst case scenario. There is virtually no mention of these circumstances in the film which demonstrates clear bias. If you come away thinking it was necessary, then the film has successfully deceived you, but it has failed as a documentary.
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