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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[โ€“] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 125 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Clickbait outrage. The movie showed what the bomb does to people without feeling like it was exploiting the suffering of innocent victims for the sake of a summer blockbuster.

The article even explains how: "In another scene, Oppenheimer gives a speech and, while looking into the crowd, visualizes some of the predominantly white audience as the victims of his bomb."

It's an effective scene. Sometimes what you don't show (negative space) is as powerful as what you do show.

[โ€“] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, there is a fucking burnt child on the movie.