Archival footage is combined with somewhat affected - looking re-enactments, but
the film achieves its purpose: to remind us that we still have thousands of bombs, and neither they — nor we — have gotten that much smarter.
Not exact matches
There is no mystery here - the audience is cleanly and surgically manipulated (completely in the opposite way as in Life of Pi - where the emotional manipulation was in fact necessary to
achieve the point of the
film), and the
purpose was merely to show the viewer how easy this is.
When requested if the
film was once in reality a Thanos
film, they gave an overly detailed glance on how they informed the tale from the
purpose of Thanos, AKA the villain, and the way that has no longer in reality been
achieved.
(Her principle role in the
film is to appear briefly in her underwear, thus
achieving the dual
purposes of supplying Kirk with a romantic interest for the next installment and reaffirming the commitment of any Trekboys whose enthusiasm for spaceships has begun to wane.)
Nothing seems kitsch or there for nostalgic
purposes; much like everything else in the
film, it has a specific goal to
achieve and it does so with elegance and style.