The Day After Trinity
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Movie Reviews of The Day After Trinity
Movie Review: You also might want to get the great miniseries, "Oppenheimer"...
Summary: 5 Stars
The BBC released the great mini-series "Oppenheimer" on Region Two DVD format last year.
This great mini-series is still felt to be the best re-creation on film of the people and events leading up to the explosions of the atomic bombs in August 1945. A young SAM WATERSTON plays Oppenheimer brilliantly.
It took years for the BBC to decide to release the series in DVD format, and then it was only in Region Two (PAL), the format used in the UK.
You'd think that they'd release it on Region One (US format), given the fact thatit starts Sam Waterson. However, it has not yet been released in the US.
The three-disc series, which also stars a brilliant David Suchet as Edward Teller, is available thru Amazon in the UK (www.amazon.co.uk) and on eBay in the UK (www.ebay.co.uk) for about $22.00 plus shipping.
Multi-format players are available in the US. It is my understanding that they have to be hacked to play other formats than Region 1,? due to licensing restrictions. I purchased an inexpensive player on eBay (US), which with shipping cost $50.00. The supplier provided the easy instructions to adapt it to Region Two format.
It is worth going to all of this effort to view again this great mini-series, which was virtually ignored in the US when it was shown here, but which remains unrivaled for both its acting and its accurate re-creation of the events surrounding Oppenheimer, his downfall, and the creation of the atomic age.
Movie Review: Behind the couch
Summary: 5 Stars
I vividly remember watching this documentary when I was four, hiding behind the couch so my grandfather wouldn't see me and change the channel. It must have been rerun, because I was only two when it was first shown on PBS...
After I saw it, I was afraid for a while that all radio towers had atomic bombs in them, like the tower at the Trinity site, and that they would be set off if there was a war. Not too bad an understanding of the Cold War, in fact!
It told an engaging story; I remember rooting for the scientists during the bomb's construction, feeling excitement and dread at the test, and then horror at the aftermath of the attack on Hiroshima.
I haven't seen it since (though it is on my wish list). However, the impression it made on me lasts to this day, and the more I learn, the better I realize this film was.
Movie Review: Not what I expected
Summary: 5 Stars
The period around the turn of the 20th century produced an enormous burst of discovery in physics. Often, it is the character of people involved that make this such a fascinating period of history. Still, the technical details of discovery and how it broadens our understanding of the physical world intrigues me to a somewhat larger degree. As I was predisposed to the technical, I had hoped for more technical detail in the film. However, far from disappointed, I watched the DVD twice the day I received it and found the film both compelling and entertaining. Oppenheimer's story, told by those yet alive at the time. A look into the Los Alamos community. His political "rise and fall." A rich and rewarding look into the not so distant past. Highly recommended.Movie Review: Would Give it More Than 5 Stars If I Could...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the most engrossing documentary I've ever seen. The portrait that emerges of Oppenheimer is more complimentary than deeper research would support, but director Jon Else has done a superb job of bringing the story of the people behind the making of the atomic bomb to life.
My favorite segments are the interviews with Robert Serber, Oppenheimer's TA at Berkeley and lifelong friend. He's one of the most transparent people I've ever seen on film, and it's fascinating to watch him re-experience conflicting emotions about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If you have just one iota of intellectual curiosity in your body, you've got to watch this one!!!
Movie Review: Bringing history to life.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have very little to say that hasn"t been said in the other reviews of this film: it is one of the greatest documentaries ever made and it is very gripping. What I would like to add is this; viewed in conjunction with Richard Rhodes' "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb", the interviews in this film with such people as Bob Serber, Robert Wilson, Hans Bethe and even Oppenheimer himself brought the characters in Rhodes' so much more to life that the film and the book together give you an almost 'you are there' feeling. Don't miss either the film or the book.