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Recent launch of Netflixthe film Dynamite House follows the investigation that began after American radars detected a nuclear missile that will hit Chicago. With time counting to avoid the attack, the story takes place in just 18 minutes.

The film is made up of three chapters that present different points of view of what happened: the White House Situation Room, the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and the President of the United States. The film entered the ranking of most watched in Netflix Braziland demonstrates how American authorities respond to the situation and what they do to determine the perpetrators.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelowfirst woman to win the Oscar of Best Direction, Dynamite House is part of an “unofficial trilogy” about the complexity of contemporary political-military disputes, begun with War on Terror (2010) and followed by Darkest Hour (2012).

However, the portrait of Bigelow bothered the Pentagon. Actual officials from the United States Department of Defense complained that they were not consulted to assess the veracity of what is shown on the screen.

The Department distributed an official memo stating that the film makes “false assumptions” about US nuclear defense. The document denies the plausibility of a plot point in House of Dynamite (via Bloomberg).

In the film, the President of the United States (played by Idris Elba) and his team work frantically to prevent total destruction. At one point, the Secretary of Defense, played by Jared Harrislaments that the government’s multibillion-dollar missile defenses only have a 50% chance of interception, despite the $50 billion cost.

According to the Pentagonthe character’s speech would be based on old prototypes, as current interception technology “shows a 100 percent accuracy rate in tests for more than a decade”.

The memo acknowledges that “the film’s fictional interceptors miss the mark and we understand that this is intended to be an engaging part of the drama for audience entertainment,” but adds that the tests tell “a very different story” from the film.

In response, the filmmakers insist that the thriller is an accurate portrayal of reality. In an interview with MSNBC (via NME), the screenwriter Noah Oppenheim said he spoke to several registered missile defense experts to construct a coherent narrative. “We asked them a lot of questions. How does it work? What are the processes? What are the procedures? So what you see on the screen is, I hope, a pretty accurate portrayal of the reality that exists,” he concludes.

• Dynamite House

• Idris Elba

• jared harris

• kathryn bigelow

• Noah Oppenheim

• Pentagon