User Reviews

The first third of the film reads as a straight documentary of a world changing event. This section has 13 shots accompanied by explosion sounds, which are intensified by the rocking of the footage as the sound wave hits the camera positions. As this section continues, it begins to feel less like scientific data and more like savage pornography. In the second third, music is introduced which transforms some of the previously used footage into a pastoral meditation, which then becomes a delightfully carefree mood. In the finale, there are tighter shots of the mushroom cloud formation and other clouds that spring up from the vapor of the event, which are crossfaded together at times over the continuing music which has become revelatory, as of a sunset. An intelligent and instinctual take on one of the key moments in human history.

I hate it. I'm sorry, but I do. I find this picture shockingly realistic (partly because it is so) and I would like to see this movie never again. What we as unknown viewers witness, are the useless atom bomb tests on a place called atoll bikini or something.

In fact, first you'll be amazed by the beauty of the bomb (well, the explosion of it, in fact there is no more bomb when you see it). A few moments later, when the stupid images repeat themselves from another angle (just like watching the world tennis cup), you begin to feel really bad, because you like to see something explode. Because that's what this movie is all about: the beauty of death.

A bit of research told me that everything what was alive before the bomb tests, died after the tests, or became mutant. Perhaps you like to see things die. Well, then you surely must see this film. If you're not scared, that is. I hope you do, because this short film is bad! If you like bombs, please, look at 'Blown Away', a very good picture with Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. But if you're evil, bad and mean, you really must see this demonic picture.