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I first saw "Barefoot Gen" on an anime station 7 1/2 years ago, and I got around to seeing it again tonight. I have to tell you that the actual bombing of Hiroshima appeared so horrific in this film, that mere words cannot describe the unsettling images I viewed on screen. Unlike, a lot of conventional films out there, I choose not to grade "Barefoot Gen" based on the usual standards of cinema, because in real life, there are no 3-act structures, appropriate dialogue, character motivations, plot logic, etc. You have to see this film on a purely visceral level, in order to truly understand the full magnitude of the blast that killed over 100,000 men, women, children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and babies living in Hiroshima during the summer of 1945. In terms of showing the brutality and devastation of a nuclear holocaust, this is as close to reality as you can get...
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