The Atomic Cafe
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Movie Reviews of The Atomic Cafe
Movie Review: WOW!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a mind-blower. Not being a child of the Atomic Age (I was born in the '70s), I wasn't exposed to any of this stuff when I was a kid. But I guess it was always there, in a way. You know - "Don't worry! The government can handle anything." There are moments when you laugh, and quite a few that tug at your heart. The juxtaposition of sound and image is simultaniously spooky and funny. The song "Let the H-Bomb Fall" fades out, and we see the nightime shot of the demon-orange glow of the Castle-Bravo test explosion. Even the plain white text that the dates and explosion names are put in gives me chills. And say what you want, but the Bikini Atoll explosion is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Amazing. Particularly good is the end, where the filmmakers use all this footage to create the end of the world.
It might be said a lot, but if you love Dr. Strangelove, you HAVE to get this movie.
Movie Review: Nothing has changed!
Summary: 5 Stars
As easy as it is to look back and laugh at the naivety of our nation some fifty-years ago, one still questions how far from that point have we come? Sure our science was flawed, but it will always be in retrospect. It's easier to look at this film and think how far we have come from the "duck and cover" days, than it is to see it as a social parallel that neither time nor technology has broken. After 9/11 we all went through, and are still going through, a time of fear and recovery. This day opened my eyes and allowed me to view this film in a different light. Sure we are seemingly further along the path of knowledge than people during the Cold War era, just as we are in hindsight of those eyes that will turn oneday and look upon us. This film points out the irony of the human condition. We can study and disect the past, even poke fun at it, but be sure we hardly ever learn from it!
Movie Review: Excellent View into '50s nuclear madness
Summary: 5 Stars
As an elementary school kid during the '50s, I still remember the "duck and cover" song. "The Atomic Cafe" is an excellent look into the past to see just how dangerous new technology can be when the expected benefits are exaggerated and the known hazards are considered insignificant. I remember an article about how nuclear power plants would provide us with so much energy that we would pay a monthly flat rate of about $25 for unlimited power. No one foresaw Three Mile Island or Chernobyl. The only real voice that questioned our headlong rush into the nuclear age were the producers of science-fiction movies because, in the 1950s, any politician or scientist who questioned our nuclear policy was condemned as a communist. "The Atomic Cafe" provides a wonderful look at the past that could serve as a lesson for the future.Movie Review: Too close to home 4 me.
Summary: 5 Stars
Being born in 1950 I have the (mis)fortune to have experienced a few paradigm shifts in the U.S. political mindset. Atomic Cafe brought back too many reminders of my living in a world gone nuts. From the age of about 13 till my late 20's I have had excruciating nightmares of bombers flying overhead and Los Angeles being captured in the photographic flash of annihilation. As an older adult I have re-experienced the nightmare through this film. Perhaps its impact is diminished to audiences born later than I. But I pray that the message will nonetheless pluck a string of mortal fear at our government's casual stockpiling of weapons in response to an illusory and paranoid perception that some country some where may have more nukes than we do.Movie Review: Gift for a Friend
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi,
I purchased Atomic Cafe for a friend who had never seen it. Her father was on a ship observing the nuclear bomb test at Bikini Atoll. He passed away at age 53, likely from radiation poisoning. My friend said that her father had to take some large red capsules frequently - she believes for the radiation poisoning. Most of the sailors at that test site died in their mid-50s. Her other favorite movie satire is, of course, Dr. Strangelove.