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Film of the Week: 'A House of Dynamite' - A Nuclear Thriller Misfire
The film depicts escalating military responses to an unidentified nuclear missile threatening Chicago, highlighting the risks of miscalculation amid high-level government tension.
- This year, Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow premiered A House of Dynamite in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, and the film is streaming on Netflix now.
- Bigelow structures the film as a triptych narrative structure that retells one crisis from three perspectives and explores mutual assured destruction as a central theme.
- Early-Warning radars detect an unidentified ICBM headed for Chicago, while missile-defense crews at Fort Greely, Alaska launch GBIs that fail or miss, with tests hitting targets about 61 percent of the time.
- The president, played by Idris Elba, faces sole authority to launch nuclear strikes using laminated options while Gen. Anthony Brady urges pre-emptive attacks despite accepting 10 million dead.
- Reviewers say the film delivers overpowering dread and the article suggests it may prompt policy makers and officials to consider costly projects, citing a $1 trillion figure.
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Eight years after the "Detroit" controversy, the American director returns this Friday with "A House of Dynamite." A shock film on the nuclear threat.
·Paris, France
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Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war
A House of Dynamite is available online for streaming on October 24. Experts say the sets, such as this one of the White House situation room's watch floor, are "scarily authentic."'/>Some praised realistic elements like the depiction of the White House situation room. But others said parts of the plot didn't ring true.(Image credit: Eros Hoagland)
·Washington, United States
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