There's already a 2 hour Shawn video on this you can listen to

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.

If he’s not going to get into why it happened, who’s responsible, then what the hell are we supposed to be learning from it?

I hate liberals so much. If you're not blaming the ones who committed the atrocity, then who???

He goes on about the care he thinks he's taking to tell this from the perspective of Japan, acknowledges that it's pretty invasive to do that (!!!), then says he can't blame the people who did this to Japan.

I’ve got to be very careful about it not being an indictment of the people who dropped the bomb

this is a cornerstone of mccarthyist thought, you'd be on track to become the first film outright banned by the trump admin if you made a film that was anti-enola gay (insert joke about how the regime already scrubbed that name from musuems)

Cameron is a capitalist still he wants to sell his movie

Somebody’s got to tell the story,

If only someone had done this

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"

Listen the important thing isn’t what drove America to commit this atrocity (trying to one up Stalin after the Russians defeated the Germans and they were coming for the Japanese next. America couldn’t have Russia win the war on two fronts so they used the atom bomb to show the soviets their military capabilities whilst bringing the war to a close on Americas terms).

The important thing with this story is lots of shots of Asian people with their eyeballs melting down their chared faces and screaming burned children and poignant shots of mothers outside evicerated schools.

That’s where the Oscar is.

Bad things happen. Let's not get into why or all that superfluous stuff like historical context.

God he's a lib

All the Avatar dickriders owe me money. Horrible phenomenon.

God he's such a cowardly lib, here I thought he might be kinda ok but "telling the story of Hiroshima without assigning blame"!?

Fucking useless. "I'm not here to make a judgement about wiping out cities in the blink of an eye, I'm just trying to say what happened"

Also the whole "I'm not American so it won't be a jingoistic pro-america piece" can fuck right off, he's Canadian and they're all basically American

"Officer involved shooting" but it's about evaporating 200k innocent civilians.

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.

fuck, and here I thought he might have a shred of fucking sense, but no

Empathy is our superpower... the lessons of America’s use of the atomic bomb in World War II

Hmm... In a single bombing raid over Tokyo - ~100,000 Japanese people were killed and a million left homeless due to a horrific slaughter due to firebombing. Not only did it feature conventional weapons - it was worse than the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

I think there's a bigger lesson here and by-and-large Americans are totally unaware of the event.

Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)

On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city. This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Tokyo Great Air Raid (東京大空襲, Tōkyō dai-kūshū) in Japan. Bombs, dropped from 279 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers, burned out much of eastern Tokyo.

More than 90,000 and possibly over 100,000 Japanese people were killed, mostly civilians, and one million were left homeless, making it probably the most destructive single air attack in human history, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese air and civil defenses proved largely inadequate; 14 American aircraft and 96 airmen were lost.

So 2 hours of a tight camera shot of a bomb being moved around until it falls from a plane and explodes?

No wait, it's James Cameron. 3 hours.

That's a lot of words to say "jingoism is predicted to make the big bucks in the next few years, but I don't want to openly admit that I'm just trying to profit of an atrocity."

Doesn't sound like you'd have much of a story there, Jim.

Avatar 3 be like: maybe the na'vi's sacred tree just did that.

my favorite genre of story: This thing happened. Now in 4K, 3D, 360° Burgervision!

no need to get all cerebral like some kind of context-obsessed nerdy dork. just show the magnificent spectacle of organized, mass murder and destruction. we're selling popcorn and nachos, people.

PBS just released a documentary this past week called Atomic People about the survivors of the atomic bombs. I haven't watched it yet, but I have to imagine it's better than whatever the fuck James Cameron is cooking

edit: looks like it may originally be a BBC doco but the IMDB page is pretty sparse. I guess I'll find out when I watch it