'Where The Wind Blows' Raymond Briggs animation
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Just ordered the book on Amazon, I didn't know it was made into a film! And a feature length one too! (85 minutes).
Will be getting that on DVD. Anyone else seen it?
Will be getting that on DVD. Anyone else seen it?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9aHT-IlkHo
They didn't crawl under a table - they had constructed a shelter from doors propped against a wall - they hid under that (watch from 0:29:20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9aHT-IlkHo
This was as per the official UK government "Protect and Survive" advice of the time the movie was set in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IaeeSKpwSQ
Far from being a silly film, I think its a fairly accurate depiction of how such people would have acted and behaved.
Ah, then you must be relatively young and not have seen the Protect and Survive government information films that were around at the time of the film's production, which did suggest that hiding under a constructed shelter (not merely under a table, as you claim) was the best thing to do. Far from the film being silly, it was quite accurate as to the official advice given to people at the time. The film also satirised such advice, showing its limitations in the wider context of things. Great film; far from silly.
They acted as advised by real government guidelines.
That was the satirical point that was being made in the animation.
Some people just accept what their government say is the truth because their government say that it is.
Everyone at the time knew that the government produced pamphlet about what to do if you got the 4 minute warning was a load of nonsense. This is what the animated film itself was alluding to.
Everyone at the time joked about how effective a makeshift flimsy homemade bomb shelter in your living room would be against the force of a nuclear bomb.
The whole point of the film is to show just how agreeable and compliant people can be and just get on with it in a 'mustn't grumble' way even when the government's wisdom is complete madness.
I thought that this was a very well written film and I think the film makers knew what they were doing.
In some ways I found this more scary than 'Threads' because this at first had a very humorous tone and a warm cosy nature to the characters. This was an animation and at that age for me cartoons didn't do the sort of thing that this animation did. So as the film went on and especially at the end, I felt very unsettled indeed because I never thought it would end that the way it did. I just didn't expect it of an animation that had the look and feel that this one did.
I find it poignant and shocking still now up to this day.
Much better piece of work than the The Snowman which gets all the attention.
I shall go against popular opinion and say that it is way too long. I've always thought it very repetitive and dull, and the characters irritated me too - and this is because it's so unnecessarily long. Nothing happens that couldn't have been covered in 30 minutes.
Although it does amuse me that he calls her a bitch. This word was fairly inoffensive in the 80s, and here is the proof.
Likewise. For anyone under the age of 35 or so it's hard to imagine what it was like back then when the possibility of a nuclear war was an ever-present threat. We had Threads and The Day After and stuff like When the Wind Blows. I thought it was a horrible time.
And yes, I am old enough to remember Protect and Survive, I was born in 77, so remember them well. Thanks for the condescending statement about me being too young though.
Made by the BBC but then they decided it too harsh to show on TV for many years. Very gritty production and not one to watch if your prone to nightmares.
No problem. Glad I could help.
The shelter was probably more for protection from falling debris in the house and flying glass - than protection from the blast itself.
Since you dont know exactly where the nuclear bomb will drop - its difficult to say just how powerful the blast will be and what damage will be caused in your vicinity. The damage caused by a nuclear blast falls off quite rapidly.
For example - a Hiroshima sized nuclear bomb would only completely destroy houses up to about 1.3 miles from the blast centre. Being inside a house beyond about 3 miles from the blast centre would be entirely survivable - and the greater danger would probably come from falling debris or flying glass - (which a makeshift shelter could offer reasonable protection) rather than from the blast itself.
The danger from radiation exposure from a conventional nuclear blast is also negligible a reasonable distance from ground zero - the radiation danger coming from the fallout rather than the blast itself.
You're not confusing it with The Young Ones, are you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lY65-APIwY#t=705
Try it again. As you get older, perhaps you can sympathise with the elderly couple. Seeing it at age 9 is not really the best time.
Ok, will watch it on youtube.
Pensioner ? There are dim people in every age group.
I don't think that the couple didn't know that they were going to die. They were clinging to hope and they were trying to behave as normally as they could...in deliberate denial. People don't give up easily. There'd have been little pathos if they'd just lolled about, swearing.
I also have Threads on DVD which is based on the same nuclear war but is much more harrowing.