Will “House of Dynamite” wake up the global public? “How can we call this ’defense’ when the inevitable outcome is total destruction? I wanted to make a film that confronts this paradox—to explore the madness of a world that lives under the constant shadow of annihilation, yet rarely speaks of it.”
I’m all in: “... an unrelenting chokehold thriller so controlled, kinetic and unsettlingly immersive that you stagger out at the end of it wondering if the world will still be intact. ... Ending on the perfect sobering note—and image—it’s a crackling thriller and a wake-up call from complacency.”
Bigelow is a great and still underrated director—sounds very promising!
This sounds very much along the lines of Annie Jacobsen's recent book on Nuclear War, including narratively. Are they related in any way or just coincidentally? Great cast (and director of course)!
No connection at all (that I know of). Jacobsen's book is actually deeply flawed in a number of critical ways that actually undermine the story she tells. From everything I have heard and read so far, the filmmakers on "House of Dynamite" got the facts right.
Yes the last chapter on EMPs struck me: I thought that theory had been discredited.