Watched the 1984 BBC film Threads, a realistic depiction of living through nuclear war

This is far from any of the usual end of the world melodramas. Unknown actors, no heroics. A science based walk through of what you could most likely expect, including the unrelenting Nuclear Winter.

What made it all the more powerful for me is the first half hour is just showing regular everday people going through their mundane lives. Doing the normal things we do every day. It's almost boring at this point. But when the bombs drop and we see what happens to them it drives the horror home even stronger. Because we can identify these people so easily as ourselves.
I think some of the nightmare images here will be etched on my brain forever.

Author and film historian Stephen Thrower:
" What even its critics had to admit was it told the truth in a totally unvarnished way about the actual genuine detail of the aftermath of a nuclear attack."

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SW-User

Frightening, I have not watched the movie and I stay from these types of films. Some think we are on the brink of world war, I really feel the world is going to come down from whatever axis it is on, and if we collectively breathe, we are much more likely to find that collapse in threat of war.

robingoodfellow · M

@SW-User as I was watching I was thinking it was absolutely relevant for right now. And confirms what I already knew: getting annihilated at ground zero is a mercy. Living through it is what you need to fear.

SW-User

@robingoodfellow Yet, this is a time of much discord, discontent, and disorder. It's also much less than humanity experienced before. If we raise our spectre, we raise our emotions that create the conditions for war. If we place wood on a fire, what happens? I'm not saying being blind, but there is something I think that is a collective totality which if we don't raise our ire to those creating the fire, we no longer give wood onto that is their fire burning. That the collective in consciousness has a way of snuffing out the fire, too.

I can understand why you would find it relevant.

SW-User

@SW-User I totally get what you're saying here and agree!!