FILMMAKER REACTS to Chernobyl Episode 3: Open Wide, O Earth
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I think Boris Shcherbina (played brilliantly by Stellan Skarsgård) is one of my favorite characters because of how much his character develops and changes over the course of the story. He starts off as dismissive and confrontational with Legasov (Jared Harris), and just looking for someone else to blame like all the other higher ups. But he wasn't stupid. He listened. I think by the end, he and Legasov might have even considered each other friends. I don't know how true that is in real life, but in the context of this story, it's beautiful to see. The entire cast was marvelous.
First saw Jared in The Expanse. And fell in love with him.
In the official podcast that follows this series, it's revealed that the three men didn't have that pump thingy to turn their flashlights back on. In reality, they traversed through pitch black by following along the pipes. The reason for this change was so that the viewers weren't just watching minutes of darkness
The finality of that moment as the cement closes up over the casket is just heartbreaking.
It's so horrifying. I can't even imagine the pain of rotting alive.
I love that this show highlights the seriousness of the situation and how much worse it could have got, and we had no idea. We had acid rain in the U.K. when it all happened and were told to stay indoors, but still, I had no idea how bad it was.
I met Stellan Skarsgård once a while ago, my Swedish cousin was actually his son Alexander Skarsgård’s girlfriend and I met all of the family members, father and sons are incredible acting talent!!
The seeming recovery of people afflicted with lethal radiation poisoning is the result of the immune system shutting down. Once the immune system shuts off it stops drawing from the patient's energy reserves so they have more energy, and the fever stops so they feel better. Feeling better doesn't last long.
One of the inaccuracies in this was that you can actually be around people who have radiation poisoning and be close to them and not 'catch' radiation poisoning from them. The firefighter's wife was played by Irish actress Jessie Buckley, who was nominated for an Oscar this year for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'The Lost Daughter', directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Fact about the show, you didn’t show it but the final stage of radiation burns that the husband got was downplayed compared to what actually happened to those guys, they were physically melting, and at some point if they tried to lift their arms there was a good chance that the bones would come out of their arms, the only way to keep someone from truly suffering from that level of radiation is a bullet, there is no real other way then to just let them have peace by being in eternal slumber.
Every time you post one of these, I kind of tend to write a comment, saying that my relatives took part in a liquidation effort of this catastrophe, and then deleting it, because me myself had nothing to do with it. It just looks like I want to be a part of something I've never experienced, being too young and such. Even though I've spent every summer within like a five hours drive from the actual site of the event since 1988 and I still own a dosimeter, my grandparents bought to check if it was safe to live where we were in Belarus. Still the feeling of unseen danger is there. I just hope the series itself and your account of it will somehow help humankind to avoid the mistakes it committed, portrayed in this series. Sorry, I probably make no sense.
I appreciated that you shared your connection to this. I share your sentiment, let's not forget the lessons of the past.
It's crazy to think about the fact that we know without question that those firefighters and people who were most effected by the radiation, we know they have no chance of living. But instead of doing the humane thing and putting them out of their misery and unimaginable pain , we let them die this horrific relatively slow death. (It's certainly slow for the people experiencing the pain.) That makes no sense to me. Believe me, I'm aware that every bit of what is going in this scenario is horrible. Having to take a life, regardless of the circumstances, is a horrible thing to do. But there are levels of horrible. And one is so much worse than the other.
congrats on the 100K man! You'll be getting your button any time now :D
(not so) fun fact! Russian soldiers during the ongoing invasion into Ukraine have actually dug trenches in exclusion zone. Even more - they did it in Red Forest, just outside the power plant! And thus they released into air a plenty of radioactive isotopes that were buried under a layer of soil. There are unconfirmed reports of Russian soldiers being treated for radioactive burns in hospitals in city of Homel, Belarus.
You may want to follow up the series by watching the making of! Fantastic series - it makes a highly complex tragedy digestible and entertaining, and if we're all lucky, educational to those who need to learn it's important lessons most.
I read a story about the wife of a liquidator. How everyone tried to convince her to leave her deformed, sick, dying husband. People proposing to her without being a widow yet. She refused, and when they asked her why, she just said “because I love him with everything I have within me”
11:24 the body doesn't actually hold radiation like that. If it did, the person would be dead immediately. The main concern would have been the clothes he wore in to the hospital, as clothes can hold nuclear fallout but your skin and your body can't. You just gotta get any debris on your body, off. It would be safe to interact with the person, as long as the nuclear material is removed. I would be more concerned with coming into contact with those guys who trudged through that waste water equipment.
I'm fine with it... most people don't know how radiation works so, it's just a little white lie that helps with the show,the drama etc ... it's ok :P
@@VULVOLINE009 But why waste everybodys time showing a false intrepretation of something? Though to be honest it might be that the doctors of the age did not have the most solid take on how radiation sources worked, so I can mostly of forgive the show for that, but Khomjuks reaction really should not have been what it was.
The firefighters breathed in radioactive dust. That couldn't be washed off.
@@margusgrenzmann3977 yeh... it's for drama, it just shows most if not all at the time didn't understand/take it seriously ... i'm guessing.
@@ariadnepyanfar1048 it sure as hell made it harder/near impossible for their bodies to deal with/process the radiation/survive but it did not make them more radioactive to others... unless they cough half a pound of phlegm in your mouth just moments after the incident and you swallow it ? you can probably be around them somewhat safely...
big difference between being irradiated and actually emitting radiation on your own.
if you eat a cubic inch of that graphite? sure you're dangerous to others but if you live long enough to shit it out ? you're safe to be around.
So if you didn’t know, during the occupation in February/ March, Russian soldiers dug trenches in one of the most contaminated parts of Chernobyl. Lack of regard for those lower down and poor information are still very much a thing.
I'm still hoping to see a "Utopia" reaction one day. (2013 British TV show about a comic, a conspiracy and a virus)
Great idea, thank you kind Sir
Such a well made series, shame it was butchered by the yanks.
The remake was painful to watch
Ahhh dude that’d be sick as
The true Hallmark of a great series is it being cancelled by Channel 4
@@HEKTIKx As a Yank I fully understand and really hope for there to be more people watching and reacting to the show bc I have never heard of it until I watched one of Pyro cynical video about it.
The reason there is no compromise when someone brings up a valid question, is because the Party knows best. To question orders is subversive.
I'm just now realizing that the film style of this reminds me of how they shoot Law & Order. That shaky cam that somehow flows like your eyes naturally might move if you were present in the situation depicted.
Thanks for your thoughts and comments, they are always well put across and informed as well as entertaining. Hope you had a nice mums day :) As always, stay awesome, stay genuine.. much love
Same to you my friend, thank you!
congrats on 100k James :)
Thank y’all!!
One of the best shows I've ever seen along with Breaking Bad and Ozark - though of course, Chernobyl is REAL - which makes it all the more horrifying. AND according to all I've read, the show is pretty accurate. Wanted to mention in ep 2, where the heli goes down, it wasn't because of the radiation, it was because it hit the lines of a crane that was standing there - though even if the pilots had survived and not gone down, they WERE too close and probably would have died of radiation poisoning. Ugh. so awful. That incident really happened too and you can see the real helicopter going down at Chernobyl on YT. Thanks, as always, for your great reactions and commentary.
"I speak without fear of contradiction." That appears to be Dyatlov's plan after the explosion by having people go to the pump room and ordering them to look into the core. By killing off all his colleagues he could have made up any story he wanted and mitigated his responsibility, but people talked before they died.
Fun fact: the kgb jail was real kgb jail in Lithuania.
The sound of that meter going off makes my skin crawl.
Congrats on 100k
my favorite mini series of all time, next few episodes are so intense.
crazy too to see the lack of care for human life by the russian government still present today eg. senseless ukranian war.
One note about the science here. Mostly this show gets it right. But the pregnant woman was in no danger from visiting her husband once his clothes were gone and he was washed off. There would be no residual radiation, just the damage already done. Now that was apparently not understood at the time in the Soviet Union, so the fear was a real thing but not backed by the science. Whatever damage she got was from her own exposure, not from her husband. There is another thing they get wrong but I think that is in the next episode, so I will wait and not lay down spoilers.
If shit hits the Vent, your Analysis is on Point. Very nice!
Happy Mother’s Day to your mom💐🙏🏼 Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend! Appreciate you man, Much love and Respect🙏🏼
I know you more or less only do horror movies around October but you should totally do a reaction to the movie The Descent. :)
Congrats on reaching 100k subscribers!
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Have you seen Moneyball (2011) stars Brad Pitt.
React to Judas and the Black messiah both lakeith and Daniel got nominated for Oscars for it!
The scariest part is that if this wasn't contained the USSR would either blamed the US or start to lash out and invade whatever is left of Europe and start WW3 because if the Russians lost all the land that would have been affected then they would be crippled and starving and not to mention the very angry NATO members that would have been caught in the radius of Fallout
Hey James! It’s important to note that this is not 100% accurate. The makers of this said they didn’t wish to make another documentary about this, as that has been done many times already, but rather wished to show what it felt like to be in the middle of this. The panic, confusion, desperation, bleakness, all of it. It’s not meant to be 100% accurate, but the slight inaccuracies are there to illuminate how the people on the ground truly felt about this and be far more immersive in that sense. Really interesting storytelling here.
EDIT: to clarify, when I’m talking about the accuracy I’m referring to the scientific side of things here. Obviously there are liberties taken in any dramatic recreation in terms of dialogue, plot, events, people, and so forth. But I mean of how some fears about some of the fallout they talk about might not be to the extent they are referring too or might give some weird analogies (such as the bullet analogy for radiation), but it’s meant to reflect how it would feel to be boots on the ground and having to think immediately of solutions for a terrifyingly large problem.
I realize that their approach worked and probably helped with the approachability for at least some of the viewing public, but I still hate them for going so off piste with the science. It's just such a wasted opportunity, entertainment being afraid of facts is why ignorance is so widespread. This could have been the chance to make a dramatization with a good budget that actually educated people about the event instead of the usual few percent of viewers bothering to learn more about the event and the rest coming away with vague memories of incorrect facts and happily proclaiming that nuclear power bad because they all could blow up and irradiate half the continent at any time.
Check out Trainspotting 2 a lot more light hearted then the first, the last film I saw with my dad too so holds a special place.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
Glad to hear it my friend! :)
Lowkey I’d love to see James react to jackass. At least one of the movies.
sorry but ew.
Big fan of your videos! Would love for you to watch Our Flag Means Death directed by Taika Waititi, when you have the chance!
4:54 One would think.
New JvC, I like
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Thank you my friend!!
There's a wonderful series called GOGOL. It's in Russian but there are subtitles. It's based on the stories of Nikolai Gogol from Ukraine. It has witches, water nymphs, fairies, and a homicidal horseman. Takes place in 19th century Russia
I hope you take a look at the next video before uploading it. Your editor did a real poor job. Your channel deserves more.
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I wholeheartedly disagree.
Beyond "Blair Witch Project", there is no justification for shaky-cam, unless meybe if you are are showing scenes that are actual handheld shots in the context of the movie.
It was a bad trend, very little positive things came out of it and many bad things did.
I am so glad that the peak of shaky-cam has passed but I so much wish things would go back to what it was before it was introduced.
You should definitely watch moonknight Oscar Isaac is amazing hopefully you watch it soon
Funny how you complain about how the higher ups are not doing same (as good) as the common folk (miners, workers, etc). And same thing is happening now in Ukraine, higher ups making horrible decisions and thousands of Russian soldiers are dying for their stupid and bad decisions.
wtf u talking about, read more about neonazi Azov war crimes.
@@Олег_Евсеев You mean about war that is totally pointless? That Russia started after lying 2 months about doing just military exercise on its borders?