<div dir="ltr">This is just so strange to me. School trips go to Hiroshima or Nagasaki and there's no obvious indication that kids or adults are particularly traumatized by the experience in any way. <br><br>Oppenheimer wouldn't seem to me to be very traumatic for anyone, anywhere, as it doesn't actually show any (to my recollection) of the damage, and even if it did, I would highly doubt that someone born in the 1960s or 70s would feel any more trauma than seeing any other type of film. <br><br>One wonders if this is simply hand wringing on the part of well meaning (or ignorant) Westerners, or possibly some clever marketing tactic. <br><br>I simply have never met a single person who seemed particularly traumatized about the bombings, even in Nagasaki where I was faculty for a while. <br><br>Well, expect that one drunk guy in Osaka who started screaming about Hiroshima in a bar in 1996 while throwing money at me, but that's a different story. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 6:15 AM Rea Amit via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Hello everyone, <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Here is a NYT piece from today about Nolan’s Oscar-winning film in Japan:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">While there is a lot to to say about the reception of the film in Japan, I am particularly intrigued by this: <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">"Mindful of domestic sensitivities, some theaters in Japan
are carrying trigger warnings, with signs cautioning audiences about scenes 'that may remind viewers of the damage caused by the atomic bombings.'”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I asked people I know in Japan who have seen the film, but
they were not warned. Does anyone know what these “trigger warnings” might be? <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Have these kinds of signs been used in other screenings in the past? Which
theaters use them? <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I would appreciate any information about this.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Thanks,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Rea<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span></span></p>
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