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'Emergency' message made incredible
“A State of Emergency" is a
movir with a message.
And a very timplv nnr for this
nuclear age A physicist f Martin
Sheen) working with computer
simulations of nuclear war un
covers new evidence that sug
gests the detonation of any
weapon over 80 megatons
would produce temperatures
high enough to generate a self
perpetuating dynamo. At this
point, any and every form of
matter would become nuclear
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fuel for this dynamo, resulting
in a nuclear tornado that would
sweep over the whole planet
and destroy everything.
Chilled by this all-too
tangible scenario. Sheen calls
for more extensive tests to con
firm his theory only to see
bureaucrats and the Pentagon
tie him up in red tape, shut
down his lab and refuse to con
sider • the implications of his
data. Even worse, he finds out
the Russians are planning to
detonate an 85-megaton missile
as part of a new weapons test
within the week.
Review by
Mary Courtis
The rest of the movie is a race
against time for Sheen to
somehow get the hard evidence
to support his theory and con
vince the Russians to stop the
test.
All this sounds exciting and
suspenseful. It is. Unfortunate
ly, the film also suffers from a
strong dose of born-again,
Bible-waving sentiment that
seeks to draw parallels between
events in Sheen's lab and the
miracle of Fatima and an unex
plained. but possibly nuclear,
blast that occurred over Siberia
in 1938.
Here the film becomes
preachy and implausible with
scenes showing Sheen crying in
front of the altar of the Blessed
Mother in Lisbon. His catching
sight of a beautiful weeping
woman standing in the middle
of the core of nuclear plasma
during one of his experiments
made me want to shout, “Come
on!" The impact of the simpler,
more straightforward story line
is undermined.
Certainly, allusions to Ar
mageddon are not out of place
here (as in the "China Syn
drome"), but such ideas and
images have more power when
they are hinted at and not laid
on thick. How sad that the pro
ducers felt they had to hammer
their points into our heads
rather than letting the story and
the characters speak for
themselves.
Too bad also because the
movie raises some important
issues that should not be
ignored.
One of the most disturbing is
that the idea of a nuclear tor
nado is not new. It was con
sidered as a possible outcome
way back in the 1940s when Op
penheimer and his team were
putting the finishing touches on
the first atomic bomb. No one
knew if detonating an atomic
device might generate this kind
of phenomenon.
Issues presented in a clear,
accurate light can be effective in
educating societies about
nuclear war and the horrors
associated with it. Nuclear war
and research are complex
issues, and some people will
always ask, as one Russian
diplomat does of another at the
end of the film: "Can we afford
to believe all this?” I would like
to offer the same answer the se
cond Russian offered him.
"Can we afford not to believe
in all this?"
"A State of Emergency"
plays nightly at Springfield
Cinemas and the West 11th
Entertainment Center'.