Chernobyl: the highest-scoring drama in the history of IMDb, looking directly at the scariest human restricted area

tragedies are often distressing, but when tragedies are wrapped in lies, they are not only sad, but also hated.

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when it comes to disaster movies, most people immediately think of Hollywood-style scenes: hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, zombie butchers, Godzilla and human forces. Then the protagonist and a group of passers-by begin their doomsday escape, thrilling and exciting, but the protagonist will eventually be saved by virtue of the halo of wisdom and luck.

but HBO's latest mini-series doesn't follow the routine of disaster movies.

in Chernobyl, the US TV series "Chernobyl", which beat Game of Thrones with Douban 9.6 points and IMDB9.7 scores, the disaster is shown in front of the audience in a real perspective akin to fear.

some viewers say that this is a disaster film that comes out of the writer's own mind. I'm sorry, and I hope so, but everything, everyone, even every word in this show is true.

after reading it, the suffocating feeling of being strangled by the throat will not go away for a long time.

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Chernobyl is one of the most important events of the 20th century. It is not war, but the death and injury it has caused is shocking.

like the end of the city, it directly killed 93000 people, made 270000 people develop cancer, and 2 billion people around the world were affected by Chernobyl.

the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was once considered to be the most reliable nuclear power plant in the world. Chernobyl, a five-star town carefully designed around the nuclear power plant, was the place most people wanted at that time.

however, at 1: 23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, with a roar across the sky and a huge amount of radioactive gas wrapped up in the sky, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded.

this is one of the worst technological tragedies in human history.

but the writer did not intervene directly from the year of the accident, but began with the suicide of an engineer involved two years later, who left his own recording before his death. he described the whole process as "lies and blame".

this is ironic, but also true, because the core tragedy of Chernobyl is the lies created by the government and the rescue workers and people who have been deceived and who have been exposed to nuclear radiation.

in the first episode, it reveals the self-deception of the deputy engineer, chief engineer, factory director, and finally government leaders at all levels after the initial explosion of the nuclear power plant.

in the end, it was hard to tell whether they were trying to cover up the truth at the moment of the accident or whether they could not convince themselves to accept the fact of the reactor explosion.

there is a scene in the play that goes like this:

the engineer who first went to check the danger came back in horror and said, "the core exploded!"

the deputy chief engineer said, "he's scared. Let him out."

the engineer said I saw graphite on the ground.

however, the deputy chief engineer said that you read it wrong and that the core could not explode.

tragedies are often distressing, but when tragedies are wrapped in lies, they are not only sad, but also hated.

because the principal deceived the truth, the public did not get any warning. During the prime time when people were most likely to evacuate people and reduce injuries, poor and ignorant people were attracted by this beautiful explosion beam. Gathered on the bridge to watch the cruelest spectacle created by mankind.

the radiation blows gently into the newborn's face, perched on the ends of everyone's hair, shoulders and the back of their hands, children play and dance, couples kiss and hug.

and they don't know that death has come so close when they are happiest.

during the Chernobyl accident, firefighters were among the first to be summoned to the nuclear power plant to fight the fire. In the Nobel Prize-winning work "the Prayer of Chernobyl", a description can be found:

"the actions of firefighters and relief workers who put out a fire at the nuclear power plant on the first night are tantamount to suicide, mass suicide. Without the protection of special overalls, disaster relief workers were unconditionally sent to work in places where they were 'dead' and were concealed the fact of absorbing high doses of radiation.

however, they don't care about this, and before they die, they are overjoyed with the government certificates and medals they have won. Many people died before they could be granted. "

the book tells all the memories of the fireman's wife, how she watched her well-behaved husband rot, fall to pieces, be buried in that abandoned land and never go home.

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this is the largest industrial disaster event in human history. The impact is not that hundreds of thousands of people have been damaged by nuclear radiation, not only accelerated the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but also far-reaching and frightening sequelae of people physically and mentally.

tens of thousands of civilians asked to be evacuated when the situation began to get out of control. They were told they needed to be away for a few days, but in fact, most of them never came back.

ten thousand mu of land has been polluted and 70 villages have been buried underground forever. Of the 2.1 million affected, 700000 are children.

to date, tens of thousands of civilians have been infected or killed for a long time as a result of radioactive material. The decay time of nuclear radiation is measured in ten thousand years.

" aerial pictures of reactor 4 exploding at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (source: Wiki)

reactor 4, known as a "landfill", contains nearly 20 tons of nuclear fuel in its lead-gray reinforced concrete belly. And the fuel part has been integrated with graphite and concrete. No one knows what they will be like in the future.

according to the analysis of the data at that time, gaseous and volatile substances emitted into the air spread around the world: detected in Japan on May 2, in China on May 4, in India on May 5, and in the United States and Canada on May 5 and 6.

within a week, Chernobyl became a problem all over the world.

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< strong > A revelation for mankind < / strong >

HBO is a five-episode mini-series, which has been fully updated, and the writer has staged all the injuries in all aspects of the apocalypse.

but the impact of this disaster on mankind around the world is by no means more than that. Chernobyl is not only a disaster of the times, but also a catastrophe for all mankind. The radionuclides scattered on our earth will remain for 50 years, 100 years, 10,000 years, or even longer.

Ten years after the accident, Alexyevich, a Belarusian journalist who won the Nobel Prize for literature, went deep into the scene of the accident and visited more than 500 people who had experienced the accident for several years. He told strange and cruel stories by sketching, piecing together the context of an era and images of human nature.

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she posted the panorama of the times in the voice of ordinary people and wrote an apocalypse of mankind.

here, the real experiences of ordinary characters are more thrilling than novels. Everyone's voice sees through the collapse of history, lies and concealment, human values, as well as anger, fear, bravery, compassion and love.

"I have been writing this book for a long time, almost twenty years." I met and talked with the former staff of the nuclear power plant, scholars, medical workers, soldiers, immigrants, and residents of the evacuation area.

for them, Chernobyl is the main content of their world. The accident destroyed not only land and water, but also their hearts and lives.

they have told that they have gone to seek answers. We used to think together. They were always in a hurry and worried that it would be too late. I didn't understand at that time. The price they witnessed was their lives. "

-- Alexyevich

if you are looking forward to the show and want to know more, you might as well take a look at this book, the Prayer of Chernobyl.

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< strong > Chernobyl (2019) < / strong >

Director: Johanrik

screenwriter: Craig Maxine

Type: plot / History

production country: UK / US

language: English

premiere: 2019- 05-06 (USA)

Collection number: 5

" Chernobyl Prayer < / strong >

author: s An Alexyevich

Press: Citic Publishing House

production

subtitle: 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature Award-winning works

translator: sun Yue

publication year: 2018-8