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I mean, there are cultural aspects of this that I have to really immerse myself in because I’m not Japanese. It feels almost a little invasive to be telling the story from their perspective, but what the hell? Somebody’s got to tell the story, and I’m not going to tell it from a jingoistic, nationalistic American perspective, because I don’t want to deal with all the sociopolitical aspects of, should it have been dropped, all that stuff. I don’t want to deal with that.

I’ve got to be very careful about it not being an indictment of the people who dropped the bomb. I think the message needs to be, this thing happened. It happened to real people. Let’s not go into why it happened and who was to blame and all that sort of thing. But let’s just take that as a moment in history frozen in amber that we need to learn from. We need to cherish that memory, because that memory might just keep us alive.

How can you learn from something without understanding why it happened?

The next level of shoot and cry is shoot and I wasn’t even there. I was sleeping

I guess Hiroshima just did that what-the-hell

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    28 days ago

    viewers learned that using WMDs on civilian population centers is horrific but also that it was a thing that just happened devoid of any ethical judgement

    this sounds like the state of liberal thought at the moment: “fascism is bad when it affects us, otherwise it is just the background noise of our glorious hegemony, and that’s just the normalcy of international rules based order”

    • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      28 days ago

      I mean, it’s consistent with how liberal history textbooks are written, just a bunch of bullet points of things that happened in that particular order. Maybe some cushioning about how those people felt and things that they believed at that time, but that’s about it.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      28 days ago

      Just a reminder but Cameron also made True Lies; in it, the terrorist Salim Abu Aziz literally mentions that America bombs his country, killing women and kids. Cameron literally wrote a villain with an actual grievance to be nothing more than a cookie cutter villain. The horrific things being done to people in non-Western countries are treated as just things that happen.