Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Atomic Cafe - Ending

It's pretty amazing how this entire film was made from real interviews and newspaper reels and everything in the archives. How were they able to get all of this and edit it together so nicely to get across their message? This documentary was able to show how all this war was just absurd and how the government was able to trick people into believing that the bomb was a good thing and that it would be easy to just go down to a shelter and be safe. Those scenes where people were practicing how to get under a desk or rush into the shelters were amusing as they 'ducked and covered.' It shows us that the dropping of the bomb was not as justified as they made it seem. The ending where the man says to his children, "there's nothing to do now but wait for orders from the authorities and relax" was very clever. I really enjoyed this film; it was a good film to end with.

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