Stop Nuclear Power- Start Here

Die Wolke was one of the most moving films I have seen in a long time. How long? I am not sure but as long as I can remember I haven't cried that hard. Amount of tears that I shed was probably in the same range as when I saw My Girl. I felt like I could relate to every moment of it. No, I am not German. No, I am not in high school. No, I don't think I live within 200 km of a nuclear reactor, do I? But I did live in Germany and this modern day interpretation of the German novel has a little bit of something for everyone in the audience: single mother, first-grade brother, high school daughter, high school misfit son, unhappy rich father, stroke victim rich mother, punch drunk in love high schoolers, stupid high school partyers, emergency response team, distant aunti, und, und, und. Not only does it speak to many different viewers it portrays for the first time in my experience a nuclear disaster in present day context with what seems to me like a lot of details that most of us citizens of the world or should I say of the western world have learned about emergency response since September 11th and Hurricane Katrina. For example, no one wants to be immobile in an emergency and people will do crazy stuff and sometimes forget their ethics when push literally comes to shove.

The love story was so sweet it made you want to go back to high school and be kissed again for the first time. It made me want to change may career track to emergency response. And after it made me do all of these things it made me want to stop nuclear power from coming back, which it might well do in the current carbon-fearing paradigm that we are living in. See this movie and take your friends that don't speak German too. The girlfriend I went with hasn't been to Germany and doesn't speak the language and she went through as many tissues as I did, if not more.