Nuclear Now
Explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy.
- Released: 2023-04-28
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Genre: Documentaries
- Stars:
- Director: Oliver Stone
Comments
- onze-kris - 31 July 2023
Rated as a documentary/movie. Not the message.
Nuclear now is fragmented storytelling with questionable references.
Thunberg, gates, Kennedy. And at the end Martin Luther King and gandhi.... are all used in this one picture.
I almost added Hawking as well. Hawking was very aware of climafe change. But the way he was used... well I don't know. It doesn't feel like it adds to the story.
This is mixed with Excellent made graphs are shown without source reference and some interviews conducted by stone.
Everything else said before is misinformation and indoctrination. And the answer is nuclear without opposing views or just let bill Gates tell us that renewable are not enough and we need to compliment it with nuclear.
The opposing view that we get there with renewables is dealt with. Later on out of the many projects available one with bill Gates is picked as well. So bill Gates is now a leader to tell us about pandemics and climate change, nuclear energy??
I really would like to hear from specialists and researchers. Not investors.
Green peace and green parties don't come out well in the movie.
As does Jane fonda, Bruce Springsteen and other musicians who are opposed to atoms.... Think of them of influences...
Yet he uses another influencer to give the message of nuclear now. And all the famous people mentioned before. He uses to convey that message.
Honestly as a documentary it is trash.
I think it's a real shame that a filmmaker with his credentials has made this movie that should fit inside 50 minutes but instead takes twice as long.
He even felt it necessary to have the joke to swim in the pool in there. While the preceding minute was all about staying away from the pool. Those 2 minutes could have easily been cut.
There is also this famous scene from stand by me. Accompanied by a story that you can't outrun climate change?? I get what he is trying to say but using stand by me there it feels like exploitation and it distracts from the message as I am watching the boys... This is not once, not twice but quite often that the storytelling goes astray.
Now I do agree that we won't get there . And we need to reconsider nuclear and other sources.
And it absolutely makes no sense to shut down operational plants without a cleaner alternative available.
Anyway I find it disrespectful to the viewer to mix real info with mentioned big names.
I still give it 3/10 for taking his time to shed a light on nuclear energy. And the music of Vangelis.
The way the movie is written and edited however it is just glorified propaganda.
It is a missed opportunity as I am on the nuclear bandwagon but I would love to have seen a more nuanced story that he would have just used researchers and scientists with source reference. - One-Movie-a-Wk-Guy - 17 May 2023
Maybe Oliver's Right?
Stone starts off the movie by showing how the world was seemingly united on the dream of using nuclear energy for good back in the 50's & 60's but them big oil & coal used their influence to steer public opinion away. Hmmm, they do that? Is that possibly why, despite knowing how bad fossil fuels are, we're still addicted to the stuff 100 yrs later? Maybe I, too, was duped by their anti-nuke propaganda - but there are some flaws in Stone's sunny brush-overs ... all 3 major nuclear accident events are all just written off as problems caused by "poor design". Does he not think that the oil & coal industries, along w/ grimy corps like known polluters GE & short-cut takers like Halliburton aren't going to have their paws in the overhaul of our country's energy source? Or that we won't be buying fake steel and defective parts from China? And that 1 nuclear.accident, albeit extremely rare, has the potential to exterminate/radiate all life forms within hundreds of miles - Sweden detected high levels of radiation 2 days after Chernobyl, and they're over 600 miles away. But we do need to move away from oil & coal once and for all, and this new technology of recycling/re-using the nuclear waste would solve a half century-old dilemma if it were true. I say let's power back up all the existing decommissioned plants here in the U. S. until solar & wind is finally ready to take over ...
