"The atomic bomb destroyed a culture. It destroyed the connection between the river and its people," and seventy years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the power of the bomb itself usually overshadows the lives it destroyed or irrevocably altered. Somberly narrated by the usually camp George Takei (STAR TREK), MESSAGE FROM HIROSHIMA uses the testimonies of survivors, film clips, still photographs, artwork, and three-dimensional CGI models to attempt to recreate for the viewer downtown Hiroshima before it became Peace Memorial Park as it is today. The digital recreations are a novel approach and well-designed if not always convincingly rendered (which is really only an issue when they substitute a CGI shot for one of the buildings that has actually been meticulously rebuilt rather than actually just showing it), but the most vivid imagery still comes from the words of the survivors in their joyous recollections of life before the bomb and heartbreaking details of the aftermath (including many of them growing up as orphans or "unclaimed children" unable to depend on the communal spirit of their neighbors that they remember existing before). Put together for the seventieth anniversary (with some interviews shot at least five years before), MESSAGE FROM HIROSHIMA does not fully realize its concept but does convey a sense of the people effected by the bombing and the multiplicity of emotions they experience when talking about the past.