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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
It is scary because it's very realistic. As about the pregnant woman, the wives of the liquidators were literally kicked out the clinics because their husbands were shining. The doctors who tried to save their lives got a deadly dose of radiation too.
This is alpha, beta and gamma penetrating every cell of your blood. A medal for the Chernobyl liquidators.
I'll repost this video here again, because it's not a movie. These are real life scenes and HBO has reproduced them very naturally. Do you remember that scene like just drop it an don't look at the reactor core?
Nobody did that at a gun point. All of them were volunteers who knew that the radioactive condemnation may cover the whole Europe and kill their own families. |
Thanks for sharing that video - I had never seen it before.
And yes I assumed HBO's retelling of the story was accurate. To me that is one of the reasons why it is so scary.
To me one of the saddest (coolest? Most ugh, beautiful?) shots was in the first episode, when everyone is watching the core glowing from a few miles away. They are all happy and things like that. It's shot in slow motion and you're not quite sure what's going on but then you see a woman hair blow in a direction away from where she is looking... then some dust and ash starts falling... and then you know. You *know*. But they keep smiling, and the kids are playing in the ash, and... fuck me that was a scary-assed scene.
And for sure - everyone who worked to contain that disaster are heroes. Their should be metals and honours given to families of everyone who died. Those people saved more than Chernobyl, they saved most of Europe and possibly most of the world too.