It is striking how the concerns of Peter Watkins about the antagonism reality and fiction were already evident well before the completion of its "Edvard Munch"! In "The Bomb" he uses similar methods to plunge us into a state of turmoil hit by a thermonuclear attack: interviews, pictures taken from life, "camera on his shoulder" with awkward zooms, ... impossible to know if this is happening is true, if it has already achieved or is doomed to be ... We in the heart of events, while a soothing voiceover now hears alarming numbers all over each other on the consequences of a nuclear conflict. One of the major successes of "The Bomb" is its ultra-realism: imagine England in flames, hordes of people ravaged by fire and radioactive radiation from an atomic war that engulfed the West! And it is like facing a real documentary consists of images from the drama really supposed to happen: Watkins brilliantly diverts the codes of the genre and once again surprises with his mastery of the medium of film and its impact on the viewer . L'efficacité d'un tel long métrage est donc difficilement contestable, existe-t-il moyen plus persuasif de l'horreur de la course à l'armement que d'en montrer les conséquences purement et simplement? Ainsi «La Bombe» est un film ouvertement politique (ce qui lui vaudra d'être censuré par la BBC) : il prend clairement position, dévoile les opinions édifiantes d'autorités aussi bien ecclésiales qu'étatiques ou militaires, n'hésite pas à souligner son propos par des images et un discours percutants... Si la nature politique de «La Bombe» réduit d'autant sa portée, il n'empêche que sa qualité et sa puissance méritent le coup d'oeil! Toutefois we may regret the direction of the work presents certain: despite a perspective exploded apparently because the word is given to players who are the most diverse in the end it's mostly about the opinion of Watkins has been evident watermark. A brilliant book then, but ironically (because that's what he denounces in part) not so far from the manipulation. [1 / 4]
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