For week one’s film Hiroshima,primarily depicts the history of the Japanese people’s
suffering from the atomic bombings and their loyalty to the Emperor. The government used
brainwashing and various means to instill obedience in the people and support them against
the enemy in other ways. This explains why Japan still wants to fight the United States after
experiencing an atomic bomb attack, because they are a militarist authoritarian state. The
government ignores Hiroshima people’s pain, using the public’s lives to bet that the United
States does not have a second atomic bomb and underestimating the impact of the atomic
bomb on humanity and the environment. The film shows the lives of Japanese people before
and after the atomic bomb, the changes the war brought to Japan are evident. The radiation
caused by the bomb leads to the victims not only suffering from the diseases but also the
discrimination from others because people are afraid that the disease will be spread to them.
This made their lives even more difficult. Surviving children had nowhere to go because their
parents might have died or gone missing. They could only beg for food and money by
learning various begging ways. This film shows the severity of war and warns or reminds
those who intend to provoke war that they need to remember these stories and other histories.
There are no winners in war because people on both sides suffer, and society and the
economy are destroyed. War affects people’s lives in every way