The Oscar for Oppenheimer has received world wide acclaim, except for one city.
Hiroshima was devastated by the first nuclear bomb in 1945, the film about the weapon’s creator is hard for residents of the city to stomach.
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“Is this really a movie that people in Hiroshima can bear to watch?” said Kyoko Heya, president of the Japanese city’s international film festival, on Monday after the blockbuster won seven Academy Awards including best picture.
Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities, days before the end of World War II.
Yu Sato, a 22-year-old student at Hiroshima City University, said she felt “a bit scared” about how bomb survivors and their families would react to the Oscar-winning film.
“I have mixed feelings, to be honest,” said Sato, who works with the survivors through her studies.
“Oppenheimer created the atomic bomb, which means he made this world a very scary place,” she said.
“Even if he did not intend to kill many people, he cannot be seen as completely unaccountable.”