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[g5000]

This 1984 BBC film imagines WWIII and its effects on what little humanity exists afterward, proceeding 13 years into the future.

This movie is grim. Grim, grim, grim. Far grimmer than The Day After.

The movie starts out in Sheffield, England, following two families as radio and television reports in the background cover escalating hostilities between the USSR and the US.

Once everything goes full global thermonuclear war, this movie turns into exactly what you know would actually happen. There is nothing cinematic about the end of civilization as we know it, and this movie shoves the horrors right into your face.

My generation actually expected this to happen any day.

 

[shockedcanadian]

This 1984 BBC film imagines WWIII and its effects on what little humanity exists afterward, proceeding 13 years into the future.

This movie is grim. Grim, grim, grim. Far grimmer than The Day After.

The movie starts out in Sheffield, England, following two families as radio and television reports in the background cover escalating hostilities between the USSR and the US.

Once everything goes full global thermonuclear war, this movie turns into exactly what you know would actually happen. There is nothing cinematic about the end of civilization as we know it, and this movie shoves the horrors right into your face.

My generation actually expected this to happen any day.

I believe I saw.it some time ago. Was one of the main characters pregnant at the end? If so, it's the same movie and indeed it was.more.grim than any movie on the subject matter at that time or since really.

 

[g5000]

I believe I saw.it some time ago. Was one of the main characters pregnant at the end? If so, it's the same movie and indeed it was.more.grim than any movie on the subject matter at that time or since really.

Yes, a girl gives birth at the end.

Horrific movie. Worse than any slasher film.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Yes, a girl gives birth at the end.

Horrific movie. Worse than any slasher film.

Yeah. It really illustrates just how concerned.the West, especially the U.K; were concerned.wth nuclear war. It.was.worse ij the 1960s due to.the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I would argue that.1984 was.perhaps the height of global fear of nuclear war as.the stakes seemed so much higher. During the Cuban Missile.Crisis only America really feared wn attack. Consider how much the Russia.vs America was in media, music and popular culture of that time.

 

[Zavulon]

Yes, it's a nice film (relatively). Nucleophobic BS, of course, and totally unrealistic, but funny. They used the scenes from it in the popular Russian song "The missiles are flying away slowly".


Say, comparing with "A house of dynamite" (2025) they, at least, tried to think about consequences.