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Listen it wasn't ever my intention to start a thread about this but it's like it's taken over my whole life since I saw it. I've been listening to "Forever Young" by Alphaville on repeat (because it tackles the subject theme) and wikipediaing Hiroshima and Nagasaki like a bitch whenever I've had a free minute. I'm definitely autistic in the approach of completely engulfing a subject when I get a hold of it.
Anyway, "Threads"
Link if you haven't seen it http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...0698427111488#
I love how it starts off like an episode of Coronation Street...
My friend noted that towards the end it does descend into a bit of silliness, but I disagree. I think for me the worst bit was the notion that surviving was actually the unluckiest thing you could do...a life as a medieval serf, essentially.
That ginger woman with the dead baby who was sat frozen freaked the fuck out of me too
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I'll watch this next time i want to be shitted up.
Have you seen The War Game? it seems like a similar thing but twenty years older. I can't remember specifics, but it's proper chilling -
Oh my god - I had an ex who used to bang on about Threads all the time. He said it was by far the scariest thing he'd ever seen! I really want to see it actually. Will do when I've got time
Oh and Hiroshima and Nagasaki make me SO SO mad. The irony of America, 'the land of the free', murdering tens of thousands of innocent people... and to most people it's completely forgotten.
oh one nice thing is that the Japanese have a special term for people who survived both Hiroshima AND Nagaski. One of the most famous survivors only died last year aged 94; he was in Hiroshima on business when it got bombed, managed to escape, and then went home to his family in Nagaski, which was bombed as soon as he got thereOriginally Posted by cwej
Oh and Hiroshima and Nagasaki make me SO SO mad. The irony of America, 'the land of the free', murdering tens of thousands of innocent people... and to most people it's completely forgotten.
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Hee hee... I did all the same reading a few months ago. I wanted to find out America's rationale for using the bombs because I couldn't really remember it from my GCSE History... Suffice to say, I was NOT impressed with the excuses bearing in mind the number of eole that were killed.oh one nice thing is that the Japanese have a special term for people who survived both Hiroshima AND Nagaski. One of the most famous survivors only died last year aged 94; he was in Hiroshima on business when it got bombed, managed to escape, and then went home to his family in Nagaski, which was bombed as soon as he got there
I'm not trying to make excuses for the septics but, at the time, they had no idea of the long-term and far-reaching consequences of the atom bomb. They'd only tested their first ever atom bomb (the gadget) on July 16th 1945 at the Trinity Site at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico and they dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6th and Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9th, so only three weeks after the initial testing. They had no idea what fallout was when they launched those two bombs, nor that it carried on killing and mutilating for years afterwards.
Back to Threads though, I remember watching it on the TV when I was about 16 and it terrified me. It was what got me interested in the whole nuclear weapons thing. Around the same time as Threads there was When The Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs, first a graphic novel and then a film like The Snowman but they don't show that every Christmas. Not quite as nasty but worth a watch.
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We had to watch Threads in school (as well as ALL the "Protect and Survive" films). No "switching it off when it gets too grim" for US. And it really is fucking GRIM. I really want a re-watch though, but i'm genuinely worried about the potential nightmares.
But this film is, of course, responsible for the best IMDB page of all time... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/
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oh how weird, I've seen this
well at least they didn't bomb Kyoto
I visited a nuclear bunker last summer when I was on holiday (sad I know but I do love all that cold war shit) Saw lots of the Protect and Survive films and other videos and someone mentioned this film so I looked it up.
Oh. My. God.
I had nightmares for 2 or 3 nights. In my opinion its farrrr more fucked up than Saw or any actual horror films. It s a proper headfuck.
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they were going to but there was a personal intervention from some guy whose name I forget, but he personally 'loved that city'
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both Douglas MacArthur and Ruth Benedict (most prominent) intervened
also to be fair bombing someone's capital city is a really shitty thing to do. Even in the game "Civilisation II" which I always play, and which simulates real life political scenarios, no one EVER nukes your capital city.
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are you taking the piss?
oh no i know, in my mind i just always think of it as the capital because in Civilisation II that's the first city you can build playing the Japanese!
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I do.
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And weep for those who trusted you.
you shit!
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interesting no one has actually voted on this poll, it's a bit hard to rate a film like this...
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The fuckers deserve it.
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Dismiss you with disgust
And weep for those who trusted you.
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