Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
It was exactly seventy years ago this month that Hiroshima was bombed by the atomic bomb. Mark Cousins's daring documentary examines death and life in the atomic era, but it's not all bad news. The film shows us an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times-protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima-but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai. The nuclear era has been both a nightmare and a dream at the same time. a.
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