Atomic Cafe

This was definately an interesting documentary.
The title "Atomic Cafe" also really captures the light-heartedness of the theme about war being all a game. Therefore, this documentary can be compared to Dr. Strangelove.
One would think thhat a documentary about the Atomic bomb would be of all seriousness (i think Mr. Benett mentioned that this was the original intentions of the film?), with the killings of thousands of people, destructions of major cities, and the utter ruinings of several islands and whatnot.
I think that all of us in this class would agree that this film has done the job well in portraying the bomb in a different light.
For example, at the very end of the film, there was the depiction of the back-and-forth between reality and silly as we first see actual footage of the bomb going off or a tree being exploded to ruins, then people hiding under their picnic blankets, then another footage of the bomb going off, and then children hiding under their chairs, or turtles hiding in their shells.
This really change our perspectives of the atomic bomb. Instead of thinking, "oh, the bomb really was for all good intentions. It helped the U.S to win the war, and we were victorious, and our leaders really made the right decisions, and yay its another war won that we can add to our list of victories...", amongst many thoughts, the film makes us think, "oh...this is really quite embaressing how the U.S. threw that bomb on japan...so many people died, it's caused so many damages, and the way americans acted towards the atomic bomb is utterly silly. They'll hide under picnic baskets, and meanwhile, people were being klled by thousands, and mass destructions everywhere...wow..just woowww."
haha, yeah that was basically what i was thinking while watching this (: