"This Fictional Nuke Film Won an Oscar" Topic
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Tango01 | 30 May 2015 11:10 p.m. PST |
"It's a little after 2:00 p.m. in Kent — an English county east of London — and the doctor is making an emergency visit. He's escorted by two Civil Defense volunteers, a man and a woman. He checks in on his patient and goes back to his car. An air raid siren squeals. It's 1965. China has invaded South Vietnam and the Soviet Union has sealed off East Berlin. Britain is in a state of emergency. The doctor and the Civil Defense workers rush into the house. The confused family helps the authorities topple furniture to create makeshift shields against the blast. "This family couldn't afford to build themselves a refuge," a dry, British, BBC style narrator explains. "This could be the way the last two minutes of peace in Britain would look." Chaos rules the house. The mother screams. One of the Civil Defense volunteers rushes outside to look for the woman's teenage son…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
zippyfusenet | 31 May 2015 4:28 a.m. PST |
I've never seen the whole film screened. About 1967, as a young teen-ager, I encountered a paperback version filled with stills from the movie illustrating the script. About the same time I was reading Irving's Destruction of Dresden, Caiden's A Torch to the Enemy, Hershey's Hiroshima. It was all deeply disturbing for a sheltered kid from a provincial mid-western city. |
Johny Boy | 31 May 2015 5:17 a.m. PST |
You can watch this on youtube, it's a traumatic and moving "must see" no holds barred view of what would actually happen in Britain from a nuclear strike, bleak, honest and direct it's no surprise once completed the authorities did everything they could to minimise public access and awareness of it. What is truly frightening is much of the effects and actions as noted in the film are based around historical fact from events such as the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs as well as the Dresden firestorm. Well worth a watch, but not on your own ;-) |
Bez Bezson | 01 Jun 2015 3:36 a.m. PST |
I'd also recommend Threads. There was an open air screening in Sheffield (where it's set)one night last autumn. The dark, chilly night and being able to look out over the city centre, while onscreen seeing the devestation really added to the atmosphere. |
Old Slow Trot | 01 Jun 2015 6:58 a.m. PST |
Saw a DVD of The War Game,checked it out from my local library. |
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