Trinity

[Richard Romeo]

saw this over the weekend--talk about the birth of psychedlia...rich
p.s. the william shatner narration is a bonus.


Almost everyone knows something about the cataclysmic end to World War II, 
when U.S. bombers
                     dropped atomic bombs onto populated cities for the 
first and last time in history. But what came next in
                     the arms race--how we got from those tubby little 
A-bombs to today's self-propelled intercontinental
                     multiwarhead arsenal--is largely overlooked. This 
documentary takes the desperate, paranoid timeline
                     of the Atomic Age and generously leavens it with 
explosive eye candy. Some viewers might find the
                     sensational presentation a bit too close to the vintage 
exploitation films it mimics--melodramatic
                     narration is provided by Star Trek's William Shatner 
and the director's cut includes a
                     mini-documentary on the present-day Nevada Test Site 
tourist attraction shot entirely in classic 3-D
                     (glasses included). The film's main draw is previously 
unreleased military footage of full-color
                     monumental destruction, cut against occasionally goofy 
newsreels and period "educational" films. The
                     heavy soundtrack, combined with endless shots of sand 
being fused to glass and buildings reduced to
                     dust, tends to drag. But there are a few moments that 
give an unusually human face to our quest for
                     mass destruction: an interview with aged H-bomb 
inventor Dr. Edward Teller early in the film,
                     declassified footage of soldiers strapping livestock 
onto battleships used as floating nuclear test targets,
                     and the haunting closing shots of Chinese cavalrymen 
charging their gas-masked horses into a rising
                     mushroom cloud. --Grant Balfour
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