Reviews for Hiroshima

[LeglessNinja]

not really a review...

I'm really only reviewing this to give a bit of information to the author (assuming they read this) and anyone else who chooses to read this. First off the conventional bombing raids used against the Japanese prior to the atomic bombs killed as many or more people than the dropping of the atomic bombs. The only reason so much controversy comes from atomic bombs is because so much devastation was caused from a single weapon. There really was no difference between the atomic bombs and the other air raids the U.S. executed during the war but you don't hear anyone calling for apologies and talking about abuse of power over those. Second, if the U.S. had not dropped the bombs, pressuring Japan into surrender, a full-scale invasion would have been required which would have cost the lives of many more people, Japanese and American, than the dropping of the atomic bombs. It was actually a quite desirable trade off. Obviously more so for the Americans because they were saving many more of thier own soldiers, but it was not necessarily as terrible of an atrocity toward the Japanese as often suggested, which is perhaps why no one ever apologized.

[LoneWolf2001]

good job on the flash but bad plot

Hey man that was a nice flash and it would have made me think about what happened if they had not attacked us first. When the jappaneese attacked us at pearl harbor even though we were supposed to be at peace with them we lost many innocent soldiers. We also told their people to evacuate the city before we dropped the bomb. It's not that I think the innoccent people deserved to die but it happened because they attacked us first when we were at peace so before u try to diss america u should check up on ur history first If u wanna talk about this thing u can email me at [e-mail] or contact me on AIM (aol instant messenger) my screen name is BgDaWg851

[onecoolart]

Why should we?

You can call me cold or whatever you want but even though I have my own opinions on if we should have dropped the bomb there, fact is we had little choise otherwise. To lay siege to Japan in the way we did on D-Day in France would result in the same number of our casualties. You shouldn't say that those few people who decided to drop the bomb shouldn't have had the power, because it is vested to them in the constitution and without it, our bindings of our country would unravel. It seems that you mean to say our bombing of Hiroshima was out of bloodlust, but I may have misinterperated that point, but why wouldnt we flatten Tokyo in that case?
A formal apology? Not SO far out of the question, but I belive that Japan should apologise for the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor. I think the most reasonable point would be to put the past behind us and look to the future, where all things can change in an instant, for better or for worse.
OK flash quality anyway.

[dFulcrum]

Excellent movie, until the end came.

I enjoyed this movie, I really did. Right up until the last words of the last screen. Then I realized this movie was not a simple memorial movie, or a reminder for future generations of the human toll of war, and the utter revulsion of weapons of mass destruction as witnessed at Hiroshima.

I do not like the concept of killing off hundreds of thousands of people with a single weapon. I am very glad that nothing like Hiroshima and Nagasaki has happened since then. Was it deserved? Of course not: no city on earth "deserves" to be destroyed by nuclear weapons, with its citizens vaporized by the thousands. It was a tragedy, a terrible tragedy.

But your movie goes further than simply remembering the destruction. It demands retribution and apology, something that is totally out of line. You say that an official apology from the United States has never appeared; yet apologies from Japan to China, the Philipines, Korea, and all other countries that suffered under their brutal rule have never appeared either.

Who is more right? Japan, who started a massive war of aggression against Asia and the US? Or the US, who ended that war the quickest way they knew how, by shocking Japan into surrender, thus saving millions of lives on both sides from a prolonged invasion? Before you lament a terrible event and call for retribution, consider both sides of the subject.

[Umsutfeersme]

Sigh...

William. Some people just don't want to be reminded in such saccarine ways of what an atomic bomb can do to a person. We know. Either they're incinerated by the blast, crushed from the falling rubble, or they die of radiation poisoning. Please, for the love of whatever nonexistant being that lives in the clouds that I don't believe in, Lighten up. And please don't reply in a pacifistic, calm, infuriating response. Just lighten up, and try not to being people down. Dammit.