“Sorry, this content is not available in your region.” What a short and sad story.
Also the best way to survive atomic bombings. Don't be in the region.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
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Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was shown it, with slides in the debrief scene. He chose to look away, and that's all the camera shows.
Right, I mean to say he didn't see it in high definition / in person, as it sounded like you were suggesting the movie should have done.
Yes, and I'm sure the director had that perspective too - that it would have been weird to show a cutaway scene across the world. I suppose just the lack of depicting any human consequences of the bombing was what irked me, I think it could have been done creatively if he wanted to.
Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#43"Sorry, this content is not available in your region." No biography.com for you, New Zealand. Welcome to Aotearoa, where history is doomed to be repeated!
I can't access it in Australia either.
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#44Was anyone else bothered by how Oppenheimer declined to show even a single scene of the devastation that was caused by dropping nuclear weapons on Japan? I otherwise liked the film, but I thought it was wrong to hide it from viewers. The bombing was the central plot point of the whole film. It would have been different if it was a new director, or surprise hit or something, but Nolan knew it would be seen by many mil…
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#45Reading this is truly harrowing. It makes me also realize how truly deplorable Putin is for constantly threatening to recreate such a situation for his own personal gain. Seems to me that people like him haven't read this persons account of what it was like. Still wounded and heavily bandaged, Yamaguchi returned to work on August 9, the day Nagasaki was bombed. That is the greatest example of Japanese work ethic and…
It might just be a great example of having to put food on the table in difficult times.
Japan is the kind of country where you will put in a 60 hour work week and still be required to play ball for the company team on a Sunday.
Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#46Was anyone else bothered by how Oppenheimer declined to show even a single scene of the devastation that was caused by dropping nuclear weapons on Japan? I otherwise liked the film, but I thought it was wrong to hide it from viewers. The bombing was the central plot point of the whole film. It would have been different if it was a new director, or surprise hit or something, but Nolan knew it would be seen by many mil…
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> Besides, Japan might ask for reparations one day.
For the 72 other Japanese cities thoroughly levelled just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, or just for the two cities each destroyed by a single bomb?
Regardless of what the film showed or not there's no shortage of public domain material showing the destruction in Japan and side by side comparisons of the firebombing of Tokyo against the ruins of Hiroshima.
It's hard to see the argument that this one film would make or break a reparations claim.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> Besides, Japan might ask for reparations one day. For the 72 other Japanese cities thoroughly levelled just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, or just for the two cities each destroyed by a single bomb? Regardless of what the film showed or not there's no shortage of public domain material showing the destruction in Japan and side by side comparisons of the firebombing of Tokyo against the ruins of Hiroshima. It's har…
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#48Reading this is truly harrowing. It makes me also realize how truly deplorable Putin is for constantly threatening to recreate such a situation for his own personal gain. Seems to me that people like him haven't read this persons account of what it was like. Still wounded and heavily bandaged, Yamaguchi returned to work on August 9, the day Nagasaki was bombed. That is the greatest example of Japanese work ethic and…
> It makes me also realize how truly deplorable Putin is for constantly threatening to recreate such a situation for his own personal gain.
I don't think Putin is doing this for his own personal gain. I think the majority of Russian leaders in Putin's place would probably have taken a similar course of action. Maybe not threatening nuclear war, but definitely having a similar Ukraine policy.
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#49"Sorry, this content is not available in your region." No biography.com for you, New Zealand. Welcome to Aotearoa, where history is doomed to be repeated!
My best guess is an over-zealous response to some content licensing deal.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a similar vein, going to Hiroshima and the Peace Memorial Museum there was a life changing experience for me.
There is currently an additional special exhibition on there as well, containing first-hand accounts from survivors who were high school students at the time.
Just went there two weeks ago. The main exhibit was horrifying. The special exhibit you mention was even worse if that's possible. These kids just living their lives as written in their diaries and then the unthinkable happened to them.