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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 22, 2024 7:26:07 GMT -5
I re-watched the 1984 nuclear war movie Threads yesterday... and it's fully as depressing as when I first saw it thirty-five years ago. It's less soap-operatic than The Day After, which dealt with similar themes and was produced at roughly the same time; Threads has more of a documentary feel to it, not focusing so much on individual characters and what happens to them. Society is the main character, so to speak. While The Day After concludes shortly after the end of the nuclear exchange, with the United States severely damaged and the main characters dying of cancer, Threads briefly cranks the despair dial to eleven by showing us England many years later, reduced to a Middle Ages level society... with its children mentally retarded, and the hope of a renewed world crushed by the final image of a stillbirth. It's a harrowing spectacle, and a good reminder (in these times of renewed international tensions) that no one can win a nuclear war.
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