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This is what Oppenheimer should’ve been about. Not SPOILERS Mediocre politics, sex, boredom biopic.
I disliked the anarchism erasure of portraying the Spanish civil war as a "communist party" cause (the authoritarian vanguardist type of communism that the movie focused on)
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"Shell shock" becomes a euphemism when you're talking about people traumatized by something other than artillery. PTSD is more general, and therefore more precise in the general case.
Euphemism means using softer words. Getting shellshock from a machine gun is not an euphemism
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"Shell shock" becomes a euphemism when you're talking about people traumatized by something other than artillery. PTSD is more general, and therefore more precise in the general case.
Regardless, PTSD is a terrible term because it's non-descriptive. It also makes it more difficult for a person to be empathetic to a sufferer of PTSD because it's not an on/off switch and more of a spectrum. A term like "shell shock" illustrates the actual trauma and enables people to be understand better why a person might act the way they do. It is often easier for a person with PTSD to describe themselves as a "vi…
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...
In light of the release of Oppenheimer, people have been talking about, basically, the other side of the development of atomic weapons. John Hersey's "Hiroshima" article from the August 23, 1946 edition of the New Yorker came up as the definitive piece on the immediate impact of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and it is a gripping read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
The movie lacked a cohesive story anyway, so that would have added some meaning.
"The bomb didnt beat Japan, Stalin did" https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...
Absolute joke content that doesn’t belong on a site like this.
I thought some new film was being made by Hollywood with 88,000 extras filming a scene tomorrow.
This is what Oppenheimer should’ve been about. Not SPOILERS Mediocre politics, sex, boredom biopic.
The movie called "Oppenheimer" is mainly about Oppenheimer (shocking, right?), it's not about "the bomb", otherwise it would have been called "Trinity" or "Manhattan" or something.
If you want to see a movie about "the bomb" don't watch Oppenheimer.
It is on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/thedayaftertrinity/thedayaftertr...
Also worth mentioning is the BBC podcast The Bomb:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08llv8n/episodes/downloads