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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They were victims. The nukes were war crimes. Show the victims.

Ultimately though a lot of Nolan's films are coded for a Conservative viewpoint going back to the Batman trilogy. There's still quite a bit of it here, even if this movie is intended to depict the honesty of nuclear weapons.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ultimately though a lot of Nolan's films are coded for a Conservative viewpoint

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I would call Nolan an outright conservative, but there is a lot of state apologia and counter-revolutionary themes in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. There's multiple examples including the justification of surveillance for anti-terrorism purposes, stateless anarchy portrayed as monstrous via Bane and The Joker, Alfred justifying imperialist actions in Burma, the protagonist being a rich billionaire, a lot of dialogue that seems to suggest it's not the system that's evil, but the lack of regulation against corruption, so on and so forth.

You might say that a lot of what he seems to advocate for seems to be firmly liberal, but Liberalism is a conservative ideology if you're looking outside America's shortsighted left/right spectrum. I like Nolan's work, but I constantly see suppression of revolutionary ideology in his work. I don't think he hates progressivism, but I do think he's riding the center, which in America, means right-wing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Blaming Nolan because Gil Kane and Bill Finger made the character a rich playboy in the 1930s seems unfair.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally half the point of the character development in the film is his realisation of the distance he has from the use and effects of his discovery. Showing them would undermine the whole thing.

Also the given his second to last film was literally about the allies fighting Nazis in WW2 I don't know what you mean about conservative coding.