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Tyson 2022-10-24 13:32:52

A masterpiece of criticism of militaristic warfare! Especially did not expect that the death of the father, sister, brother, and sister turned out to be all the real experiences of the original author. The nuclear explosion gave people a suffocating feeling, death... pain... torture... parting. The whole film just wants to tell you to live. ——The dividing line—— There is a sentence in the original play, "The government does not care about the tragedy of Hiroshima" The military government does not care about the current situation of Hiroshima. Fake mercy! In today's world of nationalism? Can you take this incident seriously? Whether it is people from China, the United States, Japan and other countries. What do you think? Some Japanese are now trying to use this event to fight defeat and to portray themselves as victims. However, some Seris directly shouted that the death was good, the bombing was good, and there were no wronged souls under the atomic bomb. It is true that many Japanese people were brainwashed at that time, "all people are soldiers", but I do not agree with the sentence "there are no wronged souls under the atomic bomb", most of the people who were brutally tortured to death were just working people! What influence does the emperor have on the war criminals? ! It is also impossible that there are no anti-war people there. Such a tragedy happened because the Japanese fascists refused to surrender and the U.S. imperialists intended to use the atomic bomb to deter all countries. If the Soviet Army had launched an attack early... this would not have happened. I hated Japanese imperialism thoroughly, and I also hated U.S. imperialism.

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  • Narration: The initial explosion of the atomic bomb claimed more than 100,000 lives, but that was only the beginning. The radiation remained, contaminating soldiers cleaning up the city, as well as those relatives of the victims who came looking for them. For years afterwards, these people would suffer leukemia and cancer, part of the collateral damage inflicted by the bomb.

  • Gen: Hey, somebody should look at this soldier, he's hurt real bad I think.

    Doctor: [sighs] Another one. Young man, do you know if he was vomiting blood or complaining that he was cold?

    Gen: Right!

    [relieved]

    Gen: Ah, then I guess that means you know what's wrong then.

    Doctor: No use looking at this one, this soldier's dead. God help us, is it possible that one bomb could've created all this devastation?