I finally watched "Threads" about 6 or 7 years ago, and have to say it truly was a compelling movie. Good script, good cast, much better than "The Day After" here in the US. Truly amazing. That said, I never want to see "Threads" ever again.
"The Day After" was just complete U. S. bull compared to "Threads". But anyway, if I was a kid/early teen growing in 1984 and saw Threads shown for the first time on BBC2 all the way through, I don't know how scarred I would have been. Not jokingly, *but* seriously. Would have petrified to death as an adult viewing it live also. Especially as The Cold War as at its height during that period until Gorbachev arrived.
I didn't care about the characters or situations in "The Day After" as much as I did in "Threads". It was just such a brutal production. I kept wanting to scream at the monitor "I ALREADY SAID I AGREE WITH YOU THAT NUKES ARE BAD! NOW JUST STOP BEING SO HORRIBLE TO THESE PEOPLE!" and then something even more horrible would happen.
3:30-3:32 is a cinematic masterpiece. Here you will not find the drawn out, hollywood style heart wrenching goodbyes you are so accustomed to. You will not seek solace in the idealistic hero's death in which entire lines of dialogue are elicited and spoken in an impossibly short period of time. There are no agonising goodbyes. No redemption. No feelings. At all. Just pure human suffering. Pure human misery. The most primal of feelings. only sexual arousal can equal or exceed a feeling such as that of existential fear and dread. We simply see only the last shot of a newly nameless man. Looking for his beloved. hopelessly running for his dearly loved in vain. It perfectly encapsulates the unbridled horror and chaos of nuclear war, and the deep apathy and every-man-for-himself approach people would eventually feel toward one another. The line between order and chaos is of a hairs width. The yesterdays are not completly obliterated among us, the fecundity of love, and the capacity it has to touch humanity should not, and will not be diminished. The tapestry which we seem to have built up over millenia has been changed in the space of short decades. Humankinds capacity of finding new and innovative ways to kill and maim one another has not abated Let us not repeat the same mistakes, We must beg We must agitate We must plead We must take action IT IS OUR DUTY TO MAKE SURE THAT NO NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE IS DETONATED, FOR ANY REASON WHATEVER, MAY WE NEVER REPEAT THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED DURING WWII, THE BOMBS AT NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA ARE SOLEMN REMINDERS OF THE HISTORY WE SHOULD NEVER, EVER REPEAT...
Bet threads scared a few people back in the day! As if people weren’t scared enough by 1984 being the year to fear in general! They had to do this and Raymond Briggs “when the wind blows” to really frighten the shit out of the general public! There’s even a band from Manchester named after that drama so it has a lasting legacy!!!!
"...sensitively portrays..." Jesus suffering feck - anything but! One of the most disturbing dramas ever shown on UK television described as such is rather hilarious. Oh well, at least we have the brilliant "Young Frankenstein" to take our minds off the sheer horror to come.
@@angelacooper2661 He doesn't. And I wasn't. What a strange comment. Unless you are referring to the mention of "Jesus" - in which case - well fine, perhaps you're a bit too sensitive to the colloquial nature of how most people talk in this country.
Threads is even more harrowing when it's introed by such jolly music.
Indeed so too!!
The brief for that promo animation was "Create something moving forward" (or so I read in one of the trade magazines.)
I finally watched "Threads" about 6 or 7 years ago, and have to say it truly was a compelling movie. Good script, good cast, much better than "The Day After" here in the US. Truly amazing.
That said, I never want to see "Threads" ever again.
I have it on DVD and having watched it a few years ago I too will probably never watch it ever again as it is still so realistic and plausible...
I think everybody who watches Threads goes away with the same feeling: compelling, realistic, superb - but - never wanting to see it ever again ...
Threads is a bit like an encounter with Dementors - you feel like you'll never be happy again.
"The Day After" was just complete U. S. bull compared to "Threads". But anyway, if I was a kid/early teen growing in 1984 and saw Threads shown for the first time on BBC2 all the way through, I don't know how scarred I would have been. Not jokingly, *but* seriously. Would have petrified to death as an adult viewing it live also. Especially as The Cold War as at its height during that period until Gorbachev arrived.
I didn't care about the characters or situations in "The Day After" as much as I did in "Threads". It was just such a brutal production. I kept wanting to scream at the monitor "I ALREADY SAID I AGREE WITH YOU THAT NUKES ARE BAD! NOW JUST STOP BEING SO HORRIBLE TO THESE PEOPLE!" and then something even more horrible would happen.
Sensitive?! Threads?! Pfft! Utterly terrifying you mean mate!
Finally, a real trailer for this film.
3:30-3:32 is a cinematic masterpiece.
Here you will not find the drawn out, hollywood style heart wrenching goodbyes you are so accustomed to.
You will not seek solace in the idealistic hero's death in which entire lines of dialogue are elicited and spoken in an impossibly short period of time.
There are no agonising goodbyes.
No redemption.
No feelings.
At all.
Just pure human suffering.
Pure human misery.
The most primal of feelings.
only sexual arousal can equal or exceed a feeling such as that of existential fear and dread.
We simply see only the last shot of a newly nameless man.
Looking for his beloved.
hopelessly running for his dearly loved in vain.
It perfectly encapsulates the unbridled horror and chaos of nuclear war, and the deep apathy and every-man-for-himself approach people would eventually feel toward one another.
The line between order and chaos is of a hairs width.
The yesterdays are not completly obliterated among us, the fecundity of love, and the capacity it has to touch humanity should not, and will not be diminished.
The tapestry which we seem to have built up over millenia has been changed in the space of short decades.
Humankinds capacity of finding new and innovative ways to kill and maim one another has not abated
Let us not repeat the same mistakes,
We must beg
We must agitate
We must plead
We must take action
IT IS OUR DUTY TO MAKE SURE THAT NO NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE IS DETONATED, FOR ANY REASON WHATEVER,
MAY WE NEVER REPEAT THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED DURING WWII, THE BOMBS AT NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA ARE SOLEMN REMINDERS OF THE HISTORY WE SHOULD NEVER, EVER REPEAT...
You are so right-thank you of course anyway.
That jolly BBC2 junction menu telling the viewers about "Threads" is just *to me* so jarring.
Yeah - it scarred millions for life!
Bet threads scared a few people back in the day! As if people weren’t scared enough by 1984 being the year to fear in general! They had to do this and Raymond Briggs “when the wind blows” to really frighten the shit out of the general public! There’s even a band from Manchester named after that drama so it has a lasting legacy!!!!
"...sensitively portrays..." Jesus suffering feck - anything but! One of the most disturbing dramas ever shown on UK television described as such is rather hilarious.
Oh well, at least we have the brilliant "Young Frankenstein" to take our minds off the sheer horror to come.
@@angelacooper2661 He doesn't. And I wasn't. What a strange comment. Unless you are referring to the mention of "Jesus" - in which case - well fine, perhaps you're a bit too sensitive to the colloquial nature of how most people talk in this country.