Post by Eλευθερί on Jun 20, 2019 11:02:52 GMT
Jun 20, 2019 9:35:14 GMT Marv said:
Would be interesting to see a Ukrainian- or Russian-written and produced version.
My other main criticism is that the way they tell the story, the audience is left to believe that there were only two senior nuclear scientists (Legasov and Khomyuk) working on disaster management and the investigation into what went wrong in the first place, one of whom in the beginning was largely doing the latter investigation more or less on her own and in secret—super conspiracy-like.
The idea that there would have been only two senior scientists working on managing the disaster response is utterly preposterous.
They used the female scientist as an amalgamation of the dozens or so of real scientists that were working on it. They did it for simplicity sake in developing characters. They state as much in the last episode.
And that was a mistake.
It's not believable that for a problem that threatened the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people in the USSR & neighboring countries, the authorities would have assigned only two scientists.
So it made the story seem unreal.
As movie viewers, we're used to seeing global disaster films where there is a hero with one or two assistants who save the fate of humanity. But this wasn't supposed to be a sci-fi flic. It was supposed to capture a major real-world historical event.
What the filmmakers should have done was show that there was a team of scientists involved throughout but then focus the story on the two scientists who had the greatest dramatic impact for the narrative.