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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Terry Brooks SIGNING Armageddon's Children Part 2




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With the reality of a nuclear threat more and more present, especially because of recent US politics, Maki, the granddaughter of a Hiroshima bombing survivor, strives to keep the memory of the horror alive so that history is not repeated. She struggles, on a daily basis, with the stigma felt by the descendants of irradiated people.
Evelyn, originally from the Marshall Islands and exiled in Honolulu, is the adopted daughter of a woman irradiated by a US thermonuclear bomb. Not only has she lost her home, she lives with the nightmare of genetic malformations and cancers at the forefront of her mind. Her goal is to obtain justice from the United States; that the suffering of her people be recognized.
These young women also introduce us to the film's themes: the rewriting of history for the purposes of political opportunism, the reality of new nuclear arms, planetary contamination, the anti-missile shield program, and peace movements.
Are the voices of the survivors enough to counter a nuclear renaissance?
… may the bomb be with you.
Despite agreeing to disarm, the nuclear states continue to ignore the treaties they have signed. Instead they invest in perfecting this terminal threat. And very few people seem to be fighting in the streets for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
It is primarily France and the United Kingdom who are called into question in this second hour. Mauréa, a young, Tahitian, anti-nuclear activist, who inherited her passion for activism from her father, struggles in a society where mentioning anything nuclear is taboo. Through Mauréa’s journey we discover a country torn apart by nuclear colonization and an environment rendered vulnerable to plutonium, one of the strongest poisons in the world.
In New Zealand, an anti-nuclear country, we meet Annie. She walks in the shoes of her parents, heroic figures in the peace movement, and instrumental in the condemnation of arms by the International Court of Justice. Annie works to inspire youth towards activism and away from fear and complacency. Peace movements seem to have lost their impact at the end of the Cold War. But in June 2006, the pacifists of the world convene in Vancouver for the International Peace Forum.  Has there been a wake-up call?

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