Movie "Unthinkable" ending -- SPOILERS!

I think the movie itself was stupid. I'm with you - the greater good. But I would find a non-lethal solution. That's just me. Superhero in my mind... lol

NewKidOldKid said:

Just finished watching Unthinkable and I find the ending disturbing. Yes, I get it that saving the children is supposed to make us look "more human" but honestly I just think it makes the character look stupid. By saving those two kids, she allowed hundreds of thousands of others to die, either from the atomic blast or as a result of radiation burns. And that doesn't take into account the women, men, dogs and cats, millions of dollars lost, financial disaster, and long-term consequences of an atomic bomb exploding.

Really? You'd save the two kids? I get it, torturing the kids would make you a monster. Aren't you a monster by letting thousands die? Has anybody seen the movie and think the choice is stupid?

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This is the problem I have with lots, LOTS, of American movies.

Towards the end, the MC is faced with a hard choice, either let a few people die (children, innocents, whatever) and 100% guarantee that the village, city, country, world, human race, etc. survives.

OR.

MC risks the lives of hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, etc. in order to possibly save a few people.

The cost vs. benefit is so asymmetrical that it is absurd to take the risk. But of course, the MC takes the risk and ends up saving the few at the potential peril of all...

Everytime this happens, I want to throw a brick through the TV screen.

and don't even get me started on people 'seriously' risking their lives and the lives of other human beings to save their pets.

Mel...

This topic reminds me of Battlestar Galactica (the new one) in that the characters were faced with these kind of choices every episode. In fact, what sold me on the show was when the newly sworn in president of the human race has to decide whether to stick around and fight the evil robots, or take off, leaving thousands of ships that aren't able to get away behind. While they often go with the needs of the many instead of the needs of the few, every now and then someone will make a choice to save a single person, and it seems all the more poignant because of how high the stakes are. Another question the show asks is it really worth saving the human race if you lose what makes you human in the first place? (In one episode a character comments that future generations will hate them for what they did, to which another character responds "Yes, but at least they'll be alive to hate us.") There are so many examples I could cite from the show, but I sound like enough of a raving fangirl already. I guess what I like about the show is that, unlike the Hollywood movies a poster above cites, the characters' choices are never really treated as being heroic either way, it's just a hard choice they had to make.

I was saw that movie, It was quite accepted by me and more people. It was so bored when story was being took at entire part. I have so much wishes to that movie but It was not still saw it.