“I always thought it was just ready,” Idris Elba said in a new trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's Dynamite. “It can put people under control and keep the world straight. If they see our preparation, no one starts a nuclear war.”
This is not the result of things in the explosive house. As the trailer continues, we see intercontinental ballistic missiles heading to the United States, as well as star-studded actors including Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Jason Clarke. “In the highest government, these professionals are asked to make impossible decisions in the most extreme situations, which is almost more terrifying to some extent,” Bigelow told Netflix.
The new Academy Award-winning movie, The Harm Locker, is a global thriller with a great focus on details, bringing audiences into the Hall of Power as the nuclear crisis unfolds. “We invite the audience into the room,” Bigelow said in a press conference after the film’s Venice Film Festival premiered. “Then, hopefully, in this case, decide how to deal with all these weapons. What should we do? What should I do? What should I do?”
The film leaves behind an ambiguous identity of the enemy, instead focusing on shockwaves through the U.S. government response. “I want the view of this film to be inward, not outwardly trained, to tend to the audience toward the core ambiguity of the nuclear debate: what do we call this defense when the results are completely destroyed?” Biglow said. “The opponent is the system we build to end the world on the hair trigger.”
The House of dynamite is the third entry in Bigelow’s opinion as the informal trilogy, while the Wounded Locker and Zero Dark Thirty are films about the military industrial complex. They all start with a similar instinct: curiosity. “That's what it always starts, with my own curiosity being inspired,” Biglow said. “I made the house of explosives because I was curious and didn't offer prescriptions or policy solutions.”
As Gabriel Basso said in the trailer, knocking down a nuclear attack is like hitting a bullet with a bullet. The film focuses on different elements of response to nuclear attacks. “It’s very nervous, surreal in terms of what we understand,” Elba said in Venice. “For me, it’s an incredible journey as an actor. It’s like the benefits of being an actor in a documentary.”
On October 3 in the UK, the Explosive Hit Race was selected worldwide on October 10, and on October 24, you will be able to ride on your own when the Explosive Hit Race is selected.
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