Monday, September 16, 2013

Atomic Cafe

Atomic Cafe was a really interesting, depressing film.  It showed clips of the atom bomb and h bombs being tested as well as actually being used against the "enemy".  It also had propaganda footage of special outfits, emergency actions, and bomb shelters.  The most horrifying part of the film was seeing footage of them testing the bombs on pigs and the pictures and footage of victims over seas.  After come of those clips were clips of Americans dancing around and loving life.  For me this is just sick, why would anyone be so happy about thousands of people being killed and injured?!  I know they were all happy about the war being over and such but I feel that a lot of those people had no idea what the atom bomb really was and what it did to everyone in the world basically.  The whole film to me was about propaganda and the lack of knowledge the people had about the atom and h bombs they were making, testing, and deploying.  The power of words of the government and politicians was disgusting, the people just ate it up, spending all their time and money on bomb shelters and things to put in them.  

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