Director: Lucy Walker
Year: 2010
For such an intriguing subject, Walker manages to take her time, but its not edited down very well and seems kind of scatter brained. Its not a bad movie, just an inefficient documentary. Good for a television, but not a good film. I was disappointed because I'm so captivated by nuclear history, and I felt I didn't learn much. I don't care for man-on-the-street interviews. Their opinions are not informed necessarily and are therefore empty. I know because I do MOS interviews on a daily basis in the news industry. They are meant to capture public mood, but I personally don't think public mood matters. I would rather see an impassioned case be made by a professional, someone who knows a great deal about the current nuclear situation... from Oppenheimer, from Tony Blair, from Jimmy Carter, good grief, she had Pervez Musharraf, Robert McNamara and Mikhail Gorbachev! She should have used these people more!
But she had so many little interviews, she had to spray in one sound-bite for everyone rather than one coherent argument from a handful, or even just one of them would have rung louder.
It also stopped short of saying, "this is what you can do to make a difference..." instead just suggested... public opinion is important. deedly doo...
Weak sauce. This film fell way short of its potential given the subject matter.
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