The meltdown at Chernobyl and its immediate aftermath laid bare the rotting edifice of an incompetent and unjust state on the cusp of perestroika.
When societies embolden a culture that undermines truth, the dissemination of information and scientific facts, everyone loses. The ordeal holds political resonance today.
Art predicting chernobyl aftermath series#
The series has attracted significant ire for deviating slightly from historical events and of getting “ simplistic Hollywood treatment” by assuming artistic liberty to recount the story in five episodes.įrom glorifying Legasov and fabricating Ulana Khomyuk’s character to represent the scientists who helped investigate the disaster to an oversimplified caricature of Anatoly Dyatlov as among the three men responsible to even the gratuitous usage of the word ‘comrade’ – there has been no dearth of criticism levelled against Chernobyl.īut Chernobyl isn’t just a historical retelling of an accident. Jared Harris stars as Legasov in Chernobyl. It uses Legasov to break down immensely dense subject matters into a lingua franca digestible to the viewers.īut the highest stature of valiance in Chernobyl is reserved for the unsung heroes: the firefighters, the coal miners who excavate the tunnel, the divers who drained the bubbler tanks underneath the reactor and the bio-robots – a highly euphemistic term for the brave men who cleared the radioactive debris above the reactor. Narrated in vignettes, Chernobyl traces the state of perpetual crisis that engulfed the country in the immediate aftermath of the meltdown. In the hours after the disaster, Professor Valery Legasov, the Soviet Union nuclear physicist who led the commission investigating the disaster, is forced to team up with an unlikely companion – deputy chairman Boris Shcherbina – to confront the gargantuan task of cleaning up the radioactive fallout of the disaster. Local committee officials repeat the party line ad nauseam: “When people ask questions that are not in their own best interest, they should simply be told to keep their minds on their labour.”Īs the true nature of the catastrophe dawns upon the inhabitants of Pripyat, writer Craig Mazin (whose most notable credits before Chernobyl are surprisingly the two sequels to the 2009 hit comedy The Hangover) and director Johan Renck bring to life the human cost of the disaster, neatly juxtaposed against a moribund economy and a callous bureaucracy. From the very get-go, the state apparatus is involved in the obfuscation of information – from the masters of the control room to the local governing council in Pripyat.
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