Further evidence that political satire simply doesn't work. Everybody should be forced to watched Threads once a year, eyes held open clockwork orange style.
The Day After was more effective a movie to get people to understand the gravity of this. It offered at the end no hope, no salvation, no recourses. And not in a 'everything just blows up way'. In a long slow painful sickened death. And it terrified people. And for something as bad as nuclear annihilation, that is what you need.
Doesn't Threads do the same thing? The ending follows a baby born after the bombs fall until she's a teenager and delivering birth to a baby of her own. They're living in feudal conditions tilling mud in a freezing hellscape. A generation later and buildings are still in ruin. Language has audibly degraded. And of course, the birth scene. Threads offers absolutely no hope.
Further evidence that political satire simply doesn't work. Everybody should be forced to watched Threads once a year, eyes held open clockwork orange style.
The Day After was more effective a movie to get people to understand the gravity of this. It offered at the end no hope, no salvation, no recourses. And not in a 'everything just blows up way'. In a long slow painful sickened death. And it terrified people. And for something as bad as nuclear annihilation, that is what you need.
Doesn't Threads do the same thing? The ending follows a baby born after the bombs fall until she's a teenager and delivering birth to a baby of her own. They're living in feudal conditions tilling mud in a freezing hellscape. A generation later and buildings are still in ruin. Language has audibly degraded. And of course, the birth scene. Threads offers absolutely no hope.
I had corrective eye surgery and they used those things. I had always assumed they were made up.
Dead Man's Letters also a hard watch.