The US of A, 70 years ago today. An animated depiction of the evil that man is capable of when acting in the name of the State, inspired by the story of a man who had survived it as a boy.
To hell with placing representatives of libertarianism in the leadership of the terrorist organization that did this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJaxdRGjMY
For more on the “Barefoot Gen” comic on which the film was based, see Wikipedia.
For more on war coverage in Japanese animation, including “Grave of the Fireflies” (set amid the firebombing of Japan) see my essay on Studio Ghibli.
UPDATE: This comic is 10 years old, so the little boy’s intuitive moral clarity would have been nuked and contaminated by government schooling by today’s 70th anniversary.
