No, I’m not going to draw any parallels to Fukushima because there are none. And no, there are no Chernobyl kids with a dozen eyes or giant legs, but this film is so charged with symbolism and sadness that it needs its own titanic concrete sarcophagus.
In fact, it’s just amazing even without the message. The best five minutes I’ve spent today – besides playing Sword & Sworcery. [Chernokids—Thanks Marian!]
Calvin Lichty
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 4:38 PMI have to agree with Mr. Diaz – this was the best 5 minutes of my day.
andronicus
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 6:45 PMWell….cool animation but….that was weird and disturbing and a little gross.
Not the best 5 minutes of my day thats for sure.
Lucas Brown
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:19 PMI want more!
Callie Rasmussen
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 9:51 PMI met children from Pryapyat as a child – they were bought to our school in Denmark on a sister school trip and I’ll never forget it; they were bald, their throats were just…well, gone…they had so many thyroid tumors that they looked like they had no neck and it was just shoulders connected to jaw. Their skin was pale grey and you could see all their veins.
About 6 months later we were told they had passed away.
Whoever made this did an amazing job of showing that.
Greg
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 11:04 PMToo many parts sad for me to watch more than a few seconds.
Gage
Monday, March 28, 2011 at 1:57 PMI only watched the first two minutes and actually found it kinda offensive…
Babs
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 4:02 AMBefore you think there are no ‘Chernobyl Kids’ with deformed features like giant legs take a look at Paul Fusco’s photos which inspired this animation…
http://www.slate.com/id/2291888/