heisenberg bore essay

Stephanie Gilkenson                                                                                                  12 / 3 / 03

Movie summary – Heisenberg + Bore paper                                                              period   6 

            This movie appealed to me in more then one various ways. It told of many positive things such as strong friendship, passion of Science, and love for a human being and how strong that bond can be. But it also told of many negative ideas such as war, dishonesty, and hate. It told of the Nazis. Its telling changed the way I look at the world scientifically.

             The story seemed to be based in around the 1920 and continues on past that. It tells a story of to men, Neil’s bore and _______ Heisenberg. Bore was born and raised in Denmark and Heisenberg was born and raised in Germany. They were close friends even though Bore was much older then Heisenberg.  They began to have a father son relationship will discovering so much together. These two men were amazing scientist. While there friendship was progressing so was the rise of the Nazis, which is negative for Bore since he is Jewish. The Nazis soon took over Denmark and the two men lost touch for a very long time. Heisenberg cares about Germany so much he will work with who ever is in control at the time. Unfortunately the Nazis were in full control. The Nazis hated the Jewish citizens. They sent many Jewish scientists away. That was one of the biggest mistakes they could have made since they would need these scientist in the future. Bore loves Heisenberg but also loves his country. He can and will not go against them. These to men are split down the middle loving there country but also loving there strong friendship.

            Heisenberg decides to take a very big risk and come and visit bore and his wife. Bores wife is a very intelligent woman. She begins asking questions about the arrival of Heisenberg. Asking is he thinks he’s coming to talk about fusion and the making of the atomic bomb. He disagrees and states no one is worrying about that. She quickly replies then why is everyone studying it? She has a very valid point. Heisenberg comes to Denmark being followed and very highly watched. Everyone is wondering why he is going to speak to the enemy after all this time? Many things are discussed while they are there but the true meaning of the coming of Heisenberg was never actually discovered. It is still a mystery today. All we no is some of the things discussed such as Heisenberg asking Bore if he new anything about the Americas making an atomic bomb? Bore seems to know nothing of that sort. Bore suddenly jumps to the conclusion that he wants to make an atomic bomb and give it to Hitler. Later on in the movie Bore recognizes that was not his meaning of travel. Then why did he come. No one knows that is a mystery till this very day.

            The question I’m here to answer is why did Heisenberg go to Denmark during a war when they are both against one other? Personally I think it was to try to get information out of Bore. He was probably being pressured greatly by the government since Heisenberg was asking mysterious questions such as the making of the atomic bomb in the Americas. I think this because of the fact that he had been lying about many other things. I don’t think that he went ahead and made the calculations of the atomic bomb because of the strong friendship they help. But I do think he did go there to get information just didn’t become successful.