Threads (1984 BBC post-nuclear film set in Sheffield)

[maomao]

Watched this while doing housework this afternoon. I think it's the first time I've seen the whole thing since staying up to see it aged ten. Golly, no wonder I was so scared of nuclear war. The first hour was a bit of a nostalgia trip though.

Can't help feeling it's optimistic in terms of the amount of structure that would be left to society. I reckon the country would fragment into local rule by warlords and gangs pretty quickly.

 

[editor]

Watched this while doing housework this afternoon. I think it's the first time I've seen the whole thing since staying up to see it aged ten. Golly, no wonder I was so scared of nuclear war. The first hour was a bit of a nostalgia trip though.

Can't help feeling it's optimistic in terms of the amount of structure that would be left to society. I reckon the country would fragment into local rule by warlords and gangs pretty quickly.

I suspect there'd be a lot less skilled people around to help rebuild given the huge amounts of outsourcing and society's total reliance on the internet.

 

[maomao]

I suspect there'd be a lot less skilled people around to help rebuild given the huge amounts of outsourcing and society's total reliance on the internet.

Depends where. We're not short of builders out my way. Inner cities would be pretty difficult though.

 

[chilango]

Never seen this before.

Watching in small chunks. Fuck me it's bleak.

Brings me right back to the time though. Sitting in Primary school discussing where we'd try and run to (somewhere with pine trees I recall, for some reason we thought they'd help).

 

[Elpenor]

Christ, that was bleak.

No wonder Mum wanted us to move from SE London to go and live on a croft somewhere in Scotland.

 

[8ball]

Christ, that was bleak.

No wonder Mum wanted us to move from SE London to go and live on a croft somewhere in Scotland.

Fucking hell.

After watching that it would make way more sense to want to move next door to a major military installation.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Depends where. We're not short of builders out my way. Inner cities would be pretty difficult though.

Everyone in the cities would be toast anyway.

 

[Epona]

Fucking hell.

After watching that it would make way more sense to want to move next door to a major military installation.

I think I'd just want the first blast to take me out, you likely wouldn't even know what was happening, instant obliteration over a long debilitating death or struggling to survive afterwards.

 

[8ball]

I think I'd just want the first blast to take me out, you likely wouldn't even know what was happening, instant obliteration over a long debilitating death or struggling to survive afterwards.

Yeah, was my point.

 

[Epona]

Yeah, was my point.

And I was agreeing with you - I know that's a strange phenomenon

 

[8ball]

And I was agreeing with you - I know that's a strange phenomenon

Was going to happen sooner or later..

 

[bluescreen]

I saw it a while back (after being signposted on here) and have no wish to survive.
But it makes me wonder what we - as a society (are we even a society?) - want to survive of us. And for whom.