The most terrifying animation ever.

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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-05-12 20:58

This webpage has a lot of prosa and poetry befitting the horror or Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
[video=youtube;BfJZ6nwxD38]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJZ6nwxD38[/video]
Episkey wrote on 2012-05-12 21:07

I think I remember reading the manga version ...

now to only see it animated. Wow O_O
â™ª wrote on 2012-05-12 21:18

I was going to post this a while back but I thought the pansies on here would flip out
Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-05-12 21:21

Quote from â™ª;862140:
I was going to post this a while back but I thought the pansies on here would flip out

Well let them flip out, their dishonour needn't bother us.
Taycat wrote on 2012-05-12 21:22

This is actually pretty cool?
Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-05-12 21:28

Quote from Mythical Detective Loki;862143:
This is actually pretty cool?

It is cool? Cool, of all the words in the world?
RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-05-12 22:17

I haven't watched it yet, but I just want to say right now that what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't "sink in" for me until I was 20.

And when I realized they weren't an "enemy", but everyday people like the rest of us getting killed at war, it was one of the most sickening feelings I've had in recent memory.
Sinsie wrote on 2012-05-12 22:24

Quote from Sumpfkraut;862149:
It is cool? Cool, of all the words in the world?

It's the fact that the bombs were so groundbreaking and exactly how they caused their devastation. Also, I couldn't get emotionally invested in the animation because of how it portrayed the victims. None of them would have the time to react to the explosion; the shadows on the ground were literally burned into the area. Imagine that if you can, the SHADOWS were burned into the ground and other objects because of the explosion. And the zombie thing was a bit much. As in, they were drawn TOO much like zombies, not enough like people warped by nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

It'll be much harder for people who know and watched real-life simulations of the bombs with historical facts accurately portraying what happened to feel devastated watching this. This doesn't take away from the actual events that occurred in our world, just this video of it. Which ironically wasn't that hard to watch because of the friendly animation of the people.

So don't take it the wrong way when people post how neat or interesting it is rather than horrifying beyond all words, etc.
RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-05-12 22:29

Yeah, after just watching it, I feel like the animation doesn't accurately depict how horrible this was. It feels like it was softened quite a lot and put in a format that is more acceptable for a wider range of people to view. It's still pretty bad, though.
Blassreiter wrote on 2012-05-12 22:42

I like how people try to justify the bombing with the atrocities that Japan did. Blah blah blah.

Irrelevant.
Kollin wrote on 2012-05-12 22:43

My cousin thinks that the innocent people who were killed by the bombings deserved it. Though, honestly, my cousin is kind of stupid, though he likes to think he is really intelligent.
Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-05-12 22:43

Quote from Sinsie;862204:
It's the fact that the bombs were so groundbreaking and exactly how they caused their devastation. Also, I couldn't get emotionally invested in the animation because of how it portrayed the victims. None of them would have the time to react to the explosion; the shadows on the ground were literally burned into the area. Imagine that if you can, the SHADOWS were burned into the ground and other objects because of the explosion. And the zombie thing was a bit much. As in, they were drawn TOO much like zombies, not enough like people warped by nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

It'll be much harder for people who know and watched real-life simulations of the bombs with historical facts accurately portraying what happened to feel devastated watching this. This doesn't take away from the actual events that occurred in our world, just this video of it. Which ironically wasn't that hard to watch because of the friendly animation of the people.

So don't take it the wrong way when people post how neat or interesting it is rather than horrifying beyond all words, etc.

I know about the shadows, but you must understand that atomic bombs do not simply have an epicenter where everything hits with full force and beyond that there is nothing.
The "zombies" weren't "a bit much", it was realistic. People can survive heavy burns, and if the temperature isn't too high it will only be superficial due to all the water inside of the body. And burned skin peels off. I would imagine that is what they were trying to show with the weird long pieces of skin falling down.
You watched simulations, which didn't include any living beings I imagine, the person who animated this was a survivor who roamed the streets and saw it all, at lesat all that was to see in the more outwards region of the blast. Your argumentum ad verecundiam is worth nothing.

I think the people moving during the explosion itself is part artistic freedom, and part confusion about what happened. It seems to be very decently used artistic freedom to me, much unlike most applications of artistic freedom I know about.

Quote from RebeccaBlack;862213:
Yeah, after just watching it, I feel like the animation doesn't accurately depict how horrible this was. It feels like it was softened quite a lot and put in a format that is more acceptable for a wider range of people to view. It's still pretty bad, though.

Well it's only a part of a film, which has some other gruesome post-explosion scenes. And you can only do so much with animations, particularly if you are not a grand master of drawing.
You can not accurately depict burned skin, and going the unpersonal overkill route where you see dozens of people burst into flames at once probably doesn't really depict the damage done to the individual that much. It's like seeing soldiers get mowed down in a mediocre action movie, versus seeing an individual running for his life and getting gunned down by a sniper and slowly bleeding to death whhile crying for help, with his comrades unable to help him.
It was done very thoughtfully, and much more convicing, articulate and immersing than the explosion scenes in The Day After.
Sinsie wrote on 2012-05-12 22:46

Which atrocities are you talking about? Unit 731, or the crimes against humanity committed against the Chinese, or something else? Either way, war can make everyone involved a monster (one thing that really rustled me was learning that Shinto priests temporarily changed their religion when it came to certain things to assure the soldiers what they were doing was the right course of action), although the two bombs are the biggest and easiest testament to this that anyone can follow.
Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-05-12 22:54

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Which atrocities are you talking about? Unit 731, or the crimes against humanity committed against the Chinese, or something else? Either way, war can make everyone involved a monster (one thing that really rustled me was learning that Shinto priests temporarily changed their religion when it came to certain things to assure the soldiers what they were doing was the right course of action), although the two bombs are the biggest and easiest testament to this that anyone can follow.

I'm not sure who and which points you are responding too.
RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-05-12 22:56

Quote from Sumpfkraut;862226:
going the unpersonal overkill route where you see dozens of people burst into flames at once probably doesn't really depict the damage done to the individual that much.

That's the main problem I had with it, it only covered one small group of people when I feel it would've had more of an impact to do it differently. At the very least, to introduce us to many different groups of people and show us that they're just like us living their own lives, and then show how those situations play out during the bombing. It might be very difficult to put into an animation, but I think it's doable.

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