When my partner first told me the Oppenheimer movie didn't talk about this AT ALL, I immediately lost whatever little interest I had. Gross to make so much money off of them, yet not even mention the victims. 35 infants died the month after the test bomb alone.
Idk, call me a buzzkill or whatever but I don't think there's enough special effects in the world to make me feel less gross about this. I really thought part of the movie would be him facing the reality of what he created tbh.
#DarylGKimball mentions the omission of the New Mexico downwind victims fairly quickly in [1]. #EmilyFaux mentions the near-total omission of women in the movie [2] and says that the movie fails the #BechdelTest [3]. Overall, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist analyses are good, though 5/5 (so far) are by men ([2] is not in the list [4]).
[1] https://thebulletin.org/2023/07/oppenheimer-the-bomb-and-arms-control-then-and-now
[2]
https://thebulletin.org/2023/08/what-barbie-can-teach-us-about-nuclear-weapons
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
[4] https://thebulletin.org/2023/07/physicists-and-other-experts-react-to-oppenheimer
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