Threads (Нити) DVD-5

Posted By : Avax | Date : 23 Jul 2009 11:26:00 | Comments : 8 |

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“As with most other reviewers who saw this movie, I too have had shocking images burned into my brain that I will never forget.

I first saw this when I was in 8th grade. Our teacher showed us the first half but then she went on sick leave and for some reason, we never got to see the rest of the film. Most of the other students didn't really care, but for years I've always wondered how the movie turned out.

Well I recently rented this after I saw it at video store I just signed up at and all I can say is, “Oh my God.” Although captivating, this movie is shockingly and frightfully sickening in the most humane way possible. It focuses on the threat of a nuclear war that is imposed on the residents of an industrial town in Britain, Sheffield. The nuclear war will affect all of Britain and penultimately, the rest of the world, but we focus on several different characters and families that reside in Sheffield.

We spend the first half of the movie focusing on people in every day life situations which lead into reports of a nuclear war scare and finally, widespread panic in society that results after it becomes apparent that a nuclear war WILL most likely occur.

The halfway point of the movie is the nuclear explosion itself. We see buildings explode, bodies incinerate and perhaps the end of the world as we may all know it.

The second half of the movie focuses on the aftermath of the nuclear devastation and the collapse of a working society. I can't even begin to name all of the horrors that are examined to great detail. We witness cannibalism, famine and disease. We particularly follow the exploits of one character, 'Ruth', pregnant with a child before the nuclear war, we witness the birth of the 'nuclear generation', and particularly, the exploits of her daughter once she is exposed to what world and life has become.

When the credits rolled, my brain couldn't tell me to find the remote and press stop. It was too busy filtering through all the images and 'what if' scenarios that were running through my brain after watching "Threads". I realise that at the time of this movie's initial release, nuclear war was a possible threat. It is now almost 16 years later and this movie still has enough power and grist to tell and show you that ANYTHING 'nuclear' is wrong.

This is a movie every school child should be forced to watch. I admit that it may induce nightmares, but this is a movie that has a message that MUST be received.” – IMDb.com

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“Saw this on PBS in 1983 and was terrified. The sheer graphic nature of the visual imagery remains burned into my brain – burned people, wrecked houses, the utter hopelessness.

One of the things I remember best about this film was the bunker where the officials tried to cope with the disaster. That resonates with me today, because I am on the Emergency Operations Committee of the City of Newark, New Jersey. On 9/11, my post was at the Emergency Operations Center, working with other agencies: municipal, county, state, and federal. I had to prepare press releases and statements from the city to inform our residents on what to do and not do.

So if the bomb drops, that's where I'll be. And if the bomb drops, I'll be with those same folks, running out of food, water, power, and patience, while the world ends around me.

The officials try to figure out how to feed starving residents, and one wonders if his family has escaped the blast. He never finds out. I went through that myself...my wife was in New York on September 11, and I told her to get out, but didn't know if she'd made it. It was a chilling five hours. But she got out.

Thinking that day about “Threads”, I saw myself in the same position as those city workers, studying a map, wondering if their families had survived, never finding out, and gradually being overwhelmed by the sheer hopelessness of the situation.

I remain haunted by the scene where British troops, long after the civilian government has collapsed, now little more than a uniformed mob, sift through the darkened bunker, finding everyone dead – presumably from lack of food or radiation, or just exhaustion. The troops are only interested in food, and they sweep by the bodies, uncaring. I saw myself as one of the corpses lying on a desk in that scenario.

The final part of the picture, with Ruth and her daughter scrabbling at the diseased ground to farm, wrapped in rags, under a permanently gray sky, also haunts me. Below are spoilers, but at this point, I don't think I'm giving up the name of Orson Welles's sled.

Civilization had completely collapsed. Ruth's daughter's generation was growing up in a dreadful mix of ignorance and horror... knowing nothing but rubble, radiation, and death. With society and our social systems gone, they had no education.

I was struck by the scene where Ruth's daughter and her pals sit around a TV set, which is playing a tape, shucking corn (I think), and the tape is saying, “Cat...this is a skeleton of a cat.” The TV was probably powered by a local power plant or batteries or some such, but there was no teacher. The kids were not interested in the tape.

That was what passed for education in the postwar world. No more Dickens, no more Michelangelo, no more Fermat. No universities, no high schools, no teachers. Learning had ended. Somehow, that upset the most...the idea that nuclear war would not only destroy humanity, but lobotomize the survivors.

When Ruth dies, Ruth's daughter takes her mother's bird book from her dead hands, incomprehendingly, and leaves her there. Quite probably she's never seen a bird. Family structure had broken down as well. That also resonated with me, because I thought about how important families and family rituals are in our civilized world. But in that environment, they meant nothing.

Ruth's daughter then meets and gets raped by some young men. One of the upsetting parts of this interchange was that neither party could speak properly. They were not only illiterate, but incoherent in speech....“Wozzat? Gizzum!” replacing the English language.

That was proved at the very end, when Ruth's daughter, pregnant, goes to what's left of a hospital, asking for help in delivering her baby.Actually, she yells at matron, “Babby! Come! Babby! Come!” I was struck by the idea of a woman in England – birthplace of the language – unable to say, “I'm having a baby, can you help me?”

I was equally struck that the cold matron, obviously older and still in possession of the English language, said, “You'll have to do it yourself, dear.” There are no supplies left. Everyone is on their own.

And when Ruth delivers her daughter, it's deformed and stillborn. That's the final coda...the future of humanity. There isn't one.

And I hope that such is not the fate of my own beloved little daughter...to end up like Ruth's daughter.” – Amazon.com

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Posted By: Kzarokoetsello Date: 23 Jul 2009 15:46:15

HI !

Seems interesting.
Any RIP in AVI or DVX ?

I do not believe a moment that OIL control is the aim .

One must seek to some thing that give interest as 1 to 6000 and that grow well in this area.
Energy war LOL

WAR yes but to "Control the SPICE" as on DUNE a S-F book.

ONE HOUSE

Posted By: Avax Date: 23 Jul 2009 16:36:00

“Any RIP in AVI or DVX?”

Can be. I can not promise yet. I never it did – time is required to seize technology...

Posted By: Kzarokoetsello Date: 23 Jul 2009 17:29:43

Hi !
Anyway, i do thank you.

ONE HOUSE

ADDENDUM http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/Drugs_in_Afghanistan.html
Where grows the spice....

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Posted By: sisyphus Date: 26 Jul 2009 01:20:18

Interesting movie, Thank you.

Posted By: Ahang Date: 03 Aug 2009 22:13:10

Thanks a lot for the post and especially for the RIP version

Posted By: Logicomix Date: 25 Aug 2009 13:10:13

Full movie on Google Video :

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488

A big thanks to 'amirezati' and 'Avax'.

Cheers!

Posted By: Alfa777 Date: 31 Aug 2009 10:54:52

Thnx a lot!
The World is changing... and in next 20 years it will be more players in world politic satge.
Hope everything goes peacefully!

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