The excitment of watching a science movie is never really high. When assigned to watch it I told myself “here we go again for a boring movie”. However by the end of the movie my perception changed completely.
Pandora’s Promise is a hour thirty long documentary film about nuclear power debate.The central argument is that nuclear power, an energy source which still faces historical opposition from environmentalists, is a relatively safe and clean source which can help mitigate the serious problem of anthropogenic global warming. This movie is convictunal movie, indeed in cites people that used to be against nuclear power that changed their minds after watching it. Another proof of the enthousiasm of people toward it, the movie raised $1.2 million in order to be produced.
Safety of nuclear power:
Is nuclear power safe? Yes.The risk of accidents in nuclear power plants is low and declining. Moreover, the radiological effects on people of any radioactive releases can be avoided.The radiations did not affect dangerously to human lives as what we had seen on the news. Because of social media, we created an antipathy to this energy source without understand clearly about how it works and impacts. Also, there has not been a single death from operation of commercial nuclear reactors in the United States.
To conclude:
The movie does a great job to teach the spectators about getting informed about a subject rather than just basing his knowledge on common stereotypes. In this case on nuclear power which is really affraying for some people when it is a better deal than most other forms of electricity production.
Overall the movie will deserve a 4/5 for me for being so informative and attention seeking. however, more tone change in the narration will have made it better.