The new Netflix doc blends dramatized scenes and real footage to tell the story of Albert Einstein's complicated relationship with the atomic bomb.
provides a blockbuster treatment of one scientist’s profoundly mixed feelings regarding his role in the creation of the atomic bomb, and its subsequent use in destroying the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, that packs a wallop in detailing how the man widely considered the father of atomic energy came to influence the innovations of the Manhattan Project, and how he lived to regret it.
This is a docudrama in the truest sense of the word. Director Anthony Philipson weaves dramatic scenes of Einstein with documentary footage; the screenplay uses only words spoken or written by Einstein himself. The dramaturgy can get a little clunky, and the hair and makeup won’t be winning any Oscars. But that’s not really the point. In choosing to forego either a standard documentary format or a low-budget biopic approach, the filmmakers manage to make history feel more human..
This Einstein is a fervent peacenik who saw in Nazi Germany an existential threat to peace everywhere, and to Jewish people in particular. He later felt great anguish at his role in opening up what he called the “Pandora’s box” of atomic weapons, the carnage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the subsequent nuclear anxiety we experience to this day. In, Einstein is portrayed by Tom Conti in passing and only as he relates to the protagonist. Here he gets to bear his soul.
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