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Oppenheimer (I) (2023)

Failed to apologise to the Japanese people

[7/10 · 1 January 2024]

This movie is one of the good ones undoubtedly. However, I think there was several points that can be highlighted here:

Oppie wouldn't have been able to achieve this (scientific breakthrough) hadn't not been a given from the US government that secured the resources and manpower to achieve this military objective. This is what President Truman said, people will never remember who built the bomb but who dropped it. In fact to me, Japanese people remember both vividly.

Oppie regret or feeling of remorse was to me fake. He knew that this military objective of mass distraction will not be suitable for a military plant but rather a civilian site with condensed population. Also I found the scene when they are discussing which city should be selected rather disgusting. The US government shouldn't be allowed to do that. Oppie insinuated to the fact that the war was almost over and the Japanese were already defeated before dropping the bomb that killed 220k people.

The movie failed to pay tribute to the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It failed to apologise for what the US did to these innocent people.

The sequence of events and the flashbacks were rather confusing at some point. I felt I had to be fully focused and concentrating to try to unfold what is happening which made me take this movie as piece meal. I watched it over three days.

I liked the sound and visual effects which were deployed to really serve the purpose and the meaning behind the scenes.

All in all a good movie and I rated it at 7/10.

Trial by Media (2020– )

Interesting Subject

[8/10 · 9 July 2020]

This documentary has grabbed my attention because if the unique concept it introduces. Looking at the influence of media coverage on criminal justice system in the US. One of the most interesting parts of this documentary is when they interviewed defence attorneys and prosecutors in order to get highlight how they were thinking while trying to represent the victims or the defendants. I particularly enjoyed episode 4 as the two defence attorneys were brilliant and they had outstanding narrative to influence the jury by using every possible means from exploitation of the witnesses' darkest and deepest secrets And using it against them to try to tailor stories and make up some facts to play mind games and influence the jury even more. What I missed in this series is two things, digging deep in the facts related to the crimes themselves and not explaining the crimes committed in more details and the other point, not analysing and showing how the media played a role in changing the dynamics of the trials. In the series, the focus was shifted towards how the media covered the trials and has been in the middle of the courtrooms not on how it made a difference in the final outcomes or the verdicts.

I thing it's a great work but if the producers are planning to make a new season, they need to elaborate more on the crimes committed and the real influence of the media on the final outcomes of the trials.