Barefoot Gen/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

* While most things depicting the nuclear bombings or Hiroshima and Nagasaki close up would qualify fot this, one particular example is ''[[Barefoot Gen]]'' - especially the initial shot of a little girl essentially melting. Their [[Eye Scream|eyes melt out of their faces]]. The very next scene, horrifically burned bomb victims stumble down the street moaning, with giant hunks of flesh hanging loose, some of them with their intestines ''dragging along the ground''. And then the radiation sickness starts setting in… Did I mention this was written based on the author’s [[Real Life|personal]] [[Write What You Know|experience]]?

* The depiction of the bombs actual explosion and all the living zombies is terrible enough, but the most personal instance has to be when Gen runs back to his home to find his entire family except his mother trapped under their burning home. Neither of them can lift the debris off of them. After his father convinces Gen and Kimie to get away from the fire, the two watch as the other three burn to death, his sister and brother pleading for help the entire time. It's no wonder Kimie goes temporarily insane after watching that.

** The simple fact that this [[Real Life|actually happened]]. And that someone survived the horror. To look upon most of them, and in retrospect even Gen, maybe it would have been more merciful for them to have died right then and there.