Review of Threads

Threads (1984 TV Movie)
10/10
Unrelentingly Grim and Powerful
14 February 2002
This film is unrelentingly graphic and grim. Grimmer than "Requiem for a Dream" and "Black Hawk Down." Far superior to "The Day After."

Even though it is so grim it is a film that everyone should see once, unless they just can't stomach it. All government leaders should see this, unless they are some sort of psychotic dictatorship. It shows what most likely would happen if a nuclear holocaust would happen. If you survived the blast and the fallout your life would be hell on earth. It would actually be better to die. The semi-documentary approach makes it especially powerful. The people seem like real people that you are watching. Which gives it much more of an impact. What is especially horrifying and also fascinating is it shows life 10-15 years after the nuclear attack and it has not gotten any better.

Any idiot who thinks we should a nuke a country should see this film it may change his or her ideas. (There were a few people who thought we should nuke Afghanistan after Sept. 11.) I give the film a 10/10.
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