Thursday, January 13, 2022
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- Commentary: This movie has haunted me ever since I saw it, a few years after it was released. I saw it on television, likely on PBS, of course, since it was made for television. I've seen it a few times since and it never fails to rivet me. It is still as probable today as it was when it was made.
I'm going to consider this write-up, though, still Under Construction, since I just received it, have yet to view it and it's been, what, at least twenty years and probably closer to thirty plus years since I last saw it. It was, after all, initially released 37 years ago.
Expect more later. Or, perhaps not.
So, I watched this movie last night, 11/16/2021. I'd forgotten, and was entranced by, the studious detail brought to the staging. The movie was even more horrific than I remembered, precisely because of these details, stuff like the increasing shabbiness of the clothes on those who survive; the work involved in opening a can when you haven't got a, well, a can opener; the importance of keeping one's affect flat in order to endure what one has no choice but to endure; the desire to die in those who lived through the blast vs. the desire to live in those born after the blast. More later, maybe, maybe not, but those were my initial astonishments.
So glad I've added this to my collection! I know I'll be watching it again!
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Paul Vaughan Narrator Karen Meagher Ruth Beckett Reece Dinsdale Jimmy Kemp David Brierley Bill Kemp Rita May Rita Kemp Henry Moxon Mr Beckett June Broughton Mrs Beckett Victoria O'Keefe Jane Sylvia Stoker Granny Beckett Harry Beety Clive J. Sutton Ruth Holden Marjorie Sutton Michael O'Hagan Chief Superintendent Hirst
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1984
Directed by Mick Jackson.
Labels: apocalyptic, dramaD, horror1, nuclear, political5, TV3, war2
