the united state build the atomic bomb in order to show their superior military power and to end the second world war . the movie fat man and little boy be a portrayal of the effort of american physicist to invent the technology necessary to create the bomb and and the tension that exist between the scientist and the military over the potential us of the bomb and and even the acceptability of it creation . the scientist think that the bomb should be create a a deterrent and a mechanism that would halt the war by waste as little life a possible . fist and they saw themselves a in a race with german scientist and who be attempt to build nuclear weapon themselves . when the german be defeat and many scientist hop to stop work on the bomb project and a they know that the japanese do not have the technology necessary to build a nuclear weapon and and therefore do not pose a threat of massive loss of life . those who favor the continuation of the manhattan project hop that the bomb would be use a a demonstration and invite the japanese head of state to view it deployment upon some tiny deserted island . this massive display of force and they felt and would be enough to win the war no killing would be need . the u military and under the direction of general leslie grove and hop all along to use the bomb a a actual weapon to be deploy against the enemy and first against the german and then against the japanese . because of the persistence of japanese soldier on the small japanese island and the u decide to drop the bomb on populous city in order to end the war and first hiroshima and then nagasaki . the display of that vast amount of force also serve notice to the rest of the world that the u be the dominant military power and a message aim especially at russia and whose grow military power and economic weight in eurasia threaten our preeminent world position . fat man and little boy be a movie that have good intention in mind and but muddle them rather badly by the choice of actor and script and and cinematography . one of the main point of the movie be the struggle between the military view of science for kill and and the scientific view of science for knowledge . the keystone of this conflict be the continued disagreement between general grove and dr. oppenheimer . mr. newman do his job in the part of the general and craggy and massively angry and and radiate his dependence upon the success of the project . dwight schultz and on the other hand and never put up much resistance at all to the general demand and always look rather weak and deflated and and phlegmatic in his audience . john cusack present a stunningly unsympathetic character in a flat a role a i have ever see it look like he be just read his line . laura dern seem to be suffer from the same malady . none of the character be help by the script and which be almost childishly ridiculous in the way it attempt to explain scientific concept unscientifically and offer the most unrealistic stock relationship between mr. cusack and ms. dern imaginable and doesn not even give u the cheap thrill of watch the army drop nuclear bomb on japan and and relies heavily on voice over a technique that be evil anytime and even when explain a character true innermost thought and or for the narration of something that can not be possibly show on the film medium and but be use here to read some absolutely trite selection out of cusack diary . the cinematographer offer u several shot of the ominous shadow of the two bomb and which might be strike if it do not look like they be cardboard cutouts instead of bomb and the fake atomic fire really do look fake and why use it when the stock footage on hand be so genuinely stunning and realistic and and the pervasive brown tone doesn not seem to be thematically appropriate . besides that and it not a bad movie .