This movie has many scenes which are both veritable truths and dramatic truths, in the beginning of the movie the many heart wrenching scenes when the bomb hit and they are walking through Hiroshima is quite clear.
The parts where the burned bodies sometimes felt unreal but actual instances and even pictures of these victims look exactly like the movie. when looking at these disturbing images both in the movie and in real pictures taken after the fact they are very similar. Many of the burned houses and people screaming under ruble has also been documented, in fact many of the people who were burned out of recognition were those trapped under ruble and was engulfed in flames becoming the very bodies Yasuko walks around and the soldiers are picking up and putting on the truck.
The scene that Yasuko's hair falls out and she has welts on her body are also documented, the people that were not directly in the blast due to cover of buildings and how far they were from the bomb have had many symptoms as shown in the movie. Examples ar hair loss, welts, high fever(reaching up to 40 C many died the first seven days due to this fever) swelling, change of color (body), bleeding of gums, and so on. Another scene in the beginning about how Yasukos uncle is talking to the man who had run away from his son, they say how they feel no pain which is also documented and hours to days later the burn starts to become agonizing pain. In the movie when people who escaped kept dying one after another, this was also true because many hospital or bomb shelters were having trouble in the amount of deaths and many were buried in groups which could be up to a few hundred.
Next is dramatic truth, the movie and its bases of stress about marriage and rumors which ended up destroying her reputation and the scenes where her aunt felt like she was shaming her sister in law and hallucinations of her friends were all dramatic truths, because the different things that people saw vary but no definite case such as this has been recorded. Another is the character who was part of the military but looses his mind when hearing a car thinking it is an tank. Though in the beginning I thought he had a mental problem from the start, we start to understand he is actually normal and quite it is just the flash backs of the war which keep following him. Another veritable truth is the voices and diary entries of what was happening from the uncles point of view and the ending narration about how he wished for a miracle and wanted to see a rainbow so that Yasuko can live. These ideas have a lot to do with emotion and so it is dramatic truth but at the same time it is also veritable truth because it is an actual diary that the book and the movie is based on.
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+ DRAMATIC TRUTH
One important dramatic truth I found in this movie is when the main character is remembering the past when the A-bomb hit. They met one guy who had survived from the bomb. He is telling his tragic story about leaving his child in fire to the main characters . This man is not a main character nor he is imporant in th story. However, the director used this fictional character to stress emotions and made audience feel the same way. Another scene I found is when aunt is sick in bed. She became mentally weak and starts to see the illusions of dead people. This brings out sad and desperate emotion so that audience have sympathy about this situation and pain the main characters are going through. These two scenes are somewhat unnecessary in flows of the movie and are fictional, but we understand the feelings. Thus I consider this two parts as a dramatic truth just for emotions.
One important dramatic truth I found in this movie is when the main character is remembering the past when the A-bomb hit. They met one guy who had survived from the bomb. He is telling his tragic story about leaving his child in fire to the main characters . This man is not a main character nor he is imporant in th story. However, the director used this fictional character to stress emotions and made audience feel the same way. Another scene I found is when aunt is sick in bed. She became mentally weak and starts to see the illusions of dead people. This brings out sad and desperate emotion so that audience have sympathy about this situation and pain the main characters are going through. These two scenes are somewhat unnecessary in flows of the movie and are fictional, but we understand the feelings. Thus I consider this two parts as a dramatic truth just for emotions.
By: Keiji and Sandy
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