The film was kino, I don't understand why everybody seemed so assblasted about it.
Literal zoomer faggots assmad she didnt have big boom scenes. Idk how she does it but the editing was fantastic
>>215521765The film was about procedure. Almost all films pertaining to nuclear war deal with the post-apocalyptic conditions. The only film off the top of my head, other than this one, is By Dawn's Early Light starring Powers Boothe. Dennis Villeneuve is said to make a film adaptation of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. There are far too few films dealing with the actual warfare stage of nuclear war and only a few and well-known ones dealing with the events leading up to it. For this alone, I hold Bigelow's film in high regard. But I also found it thrilling.
>>215521855That samuel l jackson movie was similar but this had more brechtian elements which made it even better. Glowies are so blessed to have bigelow who seems to understand how rationale may be curbed by pointless structure.
>>215521922You mean Unthinkable? And, regardless of whether you did or not, can you expand on what you meant by Brechtian a little more? I have only seen very few Brecht plays and they were ages ago.
>>215521855>Annie JacobsenIsn't that that the woman who constantly repeats Wikipedia level facts about nuclear weapons/war, like the outdated fallout projections based on data from Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
>>215522534I have only skimmed her book as of yet, but she did a lot of interviews with former players in the game, including former SecDefs, USSTRATCOM commanders etc. But I agree, many of those interviewed are long out of active duty and their opinions likely will be based on dated informations. On the other hand, how much revolutionary progress do you really deem likely? Nuclear war is a very primitive thing if you get down to it, of course there will be advances in dectection capabilities, CEP of missiles and so on, but I fail to see how any of those would be paradigm shifting. What scares me more are shifts in the global hegemony of the USA that come with the advance of a multipolar world. Pax Americana was a comfy time, nowadays things feel more like a free range with hyeanas.
>>215521765That and a bunch of smug reddit types complaining that the film had no "message," as if every movie needs to be some sort of polemic that fits perfectly with their opinion
>>215522452>refuses catharsis for pleb audiences>movie knows it is a movie (divided in episodes, staging is deliberate) >makes u really think
