Comment on Surpreisenheimer

• dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think the film would have been much “better” if we showed the horror and devistation that we caused. American media purposefully hides the death and destruction that we do, and paints ourselves as the good guys.

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I really agree. For genuinely talking about the senseless horror of those bombings, especially the callous afterthought that was Nagasaki, I prefer Dan Carlin’s podcast series.

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• ech@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  On the one hand, yes, it’s different people. That said, this particular movie made the choice to specifically hide the damage to victims and solely focus on the emotions of the man who enabled the tragedy. I’m all for stories of people trying to redeem themselves, but deliberately ignoring the victims was a bad choice, imo.

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  • Enekk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One gripe I have with the film is that none of it focuses on the poor, mostly Hispanic, population that lived in New Mexico at the time. These people had their land taken from them (their sole source of generational wealth) and died of horrific cancers post-tests. I think most of history just pretends nobody lived out there.

    Here’s just one article about it

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Really?

    …Shit, I guess I need to actually see this film before I talk about it. I assumed it was mere Oscar-bait and just absorbed information about it osmotically. I wasn’t even mad at them, just thought oh, they found a guy who looks exactly like David Byrne, of course they wanted him for their Oscar bait film.

    Those are not the choices I would have made if I was telling a story about the guy who built the bomb. I would have probably drawn a lot more from sources like Barefoot Gen, myself.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they found a guy who looks exactly like David Byrne

      You may ask yourself Why the big bomb?

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• NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re not supposed to melt the civilians.

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  • Tango@piefed.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty sure Christopher Nolan did not, in fact, melt any civilians.

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    • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He got lazy and used CGI. Directors these days, no sense of what makes a good movie.

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      • TipRing@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Kubrick would have melted some actors.

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re conflating the people who did that and the people who made a movie, if you want to throw a “nukes are a war crime” party I’m already on the guest list, but your comment reads like you’re talking shit about people who don’t like nukes and didn’t nuke anybody, are you confused about that?

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    • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes. Americans. I’m sorry you’re having difficulty with this.

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      • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Disingenuous username much?

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