milk, no uranium please

     Despite what my title would suggest, one of the things I didn't understand about the Atomic Cafe was its title.  I  do understand it sets the mood by showing that the movie is not completely serious but im not really sure apart from that.  Is it showing how we treat the whole thing like a game that we can just order whatever we want without consequence?  Although the movie has an underlying anti-war / anti-bomb message it is not told straight to you by a narrator.  When Mr. Bennett first said that i thought he meant there was going to be no speech at all, just visuals.  I think for a movie about atomic bombs visuals could actually be the only thing necessary, but in this case the words of people during that time was extremely important.  It was not just the words themselves but the context they were shown in that changes the message of the film.
    I also thought that the way and order that visuals were presented in was very interesting.  When we first watched the sequence of the couples falling in love and then getting married I didn't really think much of it.  It was interesting when Mr. B slowed it down and you could see the clear path of the ideal American couple. Apart from that scene, i think the single most interesting part of the entire film was  about the bomb experiments in the bikini atoll.  Ive actually never heard of this area until this week.  I found this description of the area and its history on numerous website but none of them cited the speaker : "Through its history, the atoll symbolises the dawn of the nuclear age, despite its paradoxical image of peace and of earthly paradise."
             That quote really symbolizes the paradox of the bomb itself and the madness associated with it.  I found this experiment to be fascinating and really a disgrace.  From the research I did and what was made evident by the the Atomic Cafe its inhabitants were unfairly robbed of their homeland.  They had know idea of the consequences of the United States experimentations.  Ive never heard about any of this before, yet its considered part of "the dawn of the nuclear age".  Its amazing what they don't put in textbooks.