Fat Man and Little Boy (1989): This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. (6.4)
Director: Roland Joffé
Writers: Bruce Robinson (story)
Stars: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia and John Cusack
The true story of the project that developed the atomic bombs is told in this movie (not as a documentary), with a special emphasis on human relationships of the leading figures involved. A bit more screen time could have been used for the doubts and the arguments the scientists had over the use of the "device" as a weapon, but the writer had decided to focus a bit more on the personal stories. Some of the scenes seem a bit too dry and rigid, but then again, this shows true events that happened in a super secret military base while the WWII is going on, with a project deadline looming, so people must have been as tense as they appear in the movie. It is interesting that the dropping of the two bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy, over the two Japanese cities is not shown in the movie. I guess, the consequences, the debates, the morality, etc. of the use of atomic weapons has been left for a different movie/documentary. My Rating: 6.5
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