48 minutes, none of them useless. If you can remember "Come and See", by E.Klimov, you precisely understand the way you feel -you've known it once. In a weird way, this fiction documentary had been produced by Her Royal Highness's BBC, but it just completely doesn't fit to the usual speech of governments. Yes, it had been banned from TV casts for like 20 years, and yes, it's easy to understand how such a movie would have produced the effect of a bomb in the 60's prudent society... The movie works in an efficient frame-line: just imagine what would happen if England was under the risk of some thermonuclear attack (of course from the USSR). The constant off-voice is pictured and never remains just theorical. What has the England government been planning to prevent its citizens from suffering? What are the effects of a thermonuclear explosion on human beings? Event if these human beings are something like 60km away from it? What would happen to the economy, the supplying of food, and even the fooding production? How would the people react, after some weeks of starvation? Is it possible to cure everyone? Is it even thinkable? These are kind of the points the movie deals with. Just remember the facts it relates are based on what happened in some German cities during the WWII, and of course the results of 'Little Boy" and its little brother... Just remember you've got nothing to lose watching this movie. Just remember you may feel some angry and desperate joy after having watched it. Just remember that's life, and no one really cares. Just WATCH IT !
Review of The War Game
