Film Analysis: Barefoot Gen

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The film Barefoot Gen is about a boy that lived in Hiroshima with his family. The first third of the movie was focused on Gen and his family’s life and how they struggled with no money and very little amount of food. One day he promised his little brother to take him to the river, after coming back from school, so they play with the small ship he made for him. While Gen was on his way to school, the enemy dropped the atomic bomb and the whole film changes from beautifully animated cartoon to a horrifying film. The animation tricks you that it’s children type of film but it’s totally not acceptable for children to see such a film. I believe that this film contains one of the saddest and most disturbing imagery. It is also the saddest and most

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