Sunday, January 16, 2011
The Atomic Cafe
While the movie is a documentary and should have an unbiased view, it is leaning towards one side. It is made up of real news footage and news reels and doesn't have a voiceover telling us what is going on. It shows that war seems like a game for the higher up generals and presidents. The scene where the President was actually laughing about something like the atomic bomb shocked me. It seems like at the time, no one knew the full extent of damage that the atomic bomb could cause. The pictures of what the bomb did in Japan were just gruesome and shocking. The power of the bomb is bigger than humans can control. The documentary, like Dr. Strangelove, has a light tone about nuclear warfare, showing scenes where they are using tape on an atomic bomb.
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The tape was there to hold the electrodes in place that ignited the implosion device. It is critical that they detonate in perfect synchronicity, or the explosion will not take place.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you say that documentaries are "supposed" to be unbiased? All are biased to one degree or the other. In fact, you show me a documentary that you think is unbiased, and I will show you that it is.