"Kathryn Bigelow has been thinking about death: hers, and mine, and yours as well. History will always remember her as the first woman to win a best director Oscar, which she did in 2010 for The Hurt Locker. But in her new film, A House of Dynamite, history may not have long to run. It is the story of a nuclear missile, launched at an American city. The rest is about what happens next."
"Bigelow would like you to consider Armageddon. Someone I know said the bomb for the audience is realising this is possible, she says. She smiles. I'm glad if people come away from the movie as concerned as I am. Today, though, her bearing is Zen. Almost six feet and wearing tinted sunglasses, she looks like a rock star, and younger than 73."
"Her own memories of the nuclear era stretch back to the early 1960s, and a cold-war childhood in California. School involved duck and cover drills, teaching kids to stay safe in a nuclear attack. I grew up hiding under my desk. Of course, I was too young to understand what I was doing down there. Rebecca Ferguson as White House security analyst Olivia Walker in A House of Dynamite. Photograph: BFA/Alamy"
Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite portrays a nuclear missile launched at an American city and follows the consequences. The film stars Rebecca Ferguson as a White House security analyst and Idris Elba as the US president. The narrative emphasizes the modern tendency to ignore nuclear danger amid constant online outrage and distraction. Bigelow draws on Cold War memories, including duck-and-cover drills, to underscore how nuclear annihilation became normalized. The film uses closely researched detail and a present-day setting to prompt viewers to confront the combustible, persistent reality of nuclear stockpiles.
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