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Originally Posted by Puppet Guy
I used to have vivid nightmares about nuclear war as a kid, so I've avoided a lot of movies on the subject. Didn't see The Day After until years after it aired. It's pretty graphic, and I've heard Threads is worse (There's a clip on Youtube where the manager of CKY TV says Threads makes The Day After look like a walk in the park). Can't bring myself to watch it.
There's a movie called Testament from about 1983 which is supposed to be completely heart-ripping. Miracle Mile from 1988, too.
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Threads came out a year after The Day After and it was somewhat inspired by it but in typical British fashion as they had little money to spend they had to make it about people, it was a psuedo documentary it sort of follows the story of the people living in Sheffield as it is all but wiped out while also following the futile efforts of the local council trying to cope with it all, the images that still stick with me 40 years later were of a middle aged woman holding her shopping bags and wetting herself as she watches the first bomb go off, it was just this very ordinary middle aged women standing their with a puddle of urine spreading out below her, you just didnt see anything like that on TV, their is also the image of the traffic warden covered in bandages with a gun guardinga food depot, it was all so incogruous, we would laugh at traffic wardens but in this hellish future they will be armed and shooting people for almost anything as there will be so little authority left.
It scared the bejusus out of the whole country, we all knew in a war the UK would be screwed, it's basically one big military base/stationary aircraft carrier for the US so we knew we were all dead in a few minutes and in my teens I never thought I would survive into my thirties, I always assumed I would be killed by a nuke.