Threads [DVD]

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Whitelaw, Paul (21 November 2013). "Threads – box set review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017 . Retrieved 16 December 2016. years on from the nuclear blasts and Britain is still struggling to rebuild any semblance of organised society. Ruth and her daughter, Jane, tend the land under the intense ultraviolet rays generated by the damaged atmosphere, but the journey for Ruth is finally at an end as she collapses to the floor and dies. Despite only being in her 30s at this point, the hardships of radiation, the harsh elements and intense mental stress have aged her by several decades leaving her with pale skin, cataracts and lifeless, straw like hair. I think it would be useless to repeat all that the other users have said about "Threads" since I cannot do better but agree with everything. This has to be THE most graphic representation of nuclear war. And I used to think "The Day After" was disturbing. Our intention in making Threads was to step aside from the politics and – I hope convincingly – show the actual effects on either side should our best endeavours to prevent nuclear war fail.

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Threads Review (Severin Films Blu-ray)". Cultsploitation. 15 February 2018. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020 . Retrieved 26 February 2018. This is a world in which the living envy the dead. In which hospitals, divested of the means to exercise proper care, carry out amputations on patients without anaesthetic. In which Ruth – having given birth to a daughter – is forced to trade her body for rats as a form of sustenance. Where children of the survivors of the apocalypse roam the land, mute due to there being no education system of which to speak. Threads was a 1984 BBC2 drama/documentary which tried to predict what would happen to Britain if nuclear war broke out and follows the path taken by Ruth Kemp and her family. It's a show which is regularly feted as one of the most bleak, disturbing and realistic pieces of drama to ever air not just on British TV, but in the history of the entire planet's televisual output. And, no matter how many times I watch it, the unflinching honesty of Threads leaves me feeling incredibly disconsolate, but completely engrossed. Threads' was looked on as left-wing anti-nuclear propaganda in the mid-80's during the height of Thatcherism,yet was still broadcast by the BBC even though said Mrs T always clearly had a downer on the organisation.Clark, Kenneth R. (11 January 1985). " 'Threads': Nightmare After the Holocaust". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015 . Retrieved 14 October 2013. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it a "masterpiece", writing: "It wasn't until I saw Threads that I found that something on screen could make me break out in a cold, shivering sweat and keep me in that condition for 20 minutes, followed by weeks of depression and anxiety". [34] Sam Toy of Empire gave the film a perfect score, writing that "this British work of (technically) science fiction teaches an unforgettable lesson in true horror" and went on to praise its ability "to create an almost impossible illusion on clearly paltry funds". [35] Jonathan Hatfull of SciFiNow gave a perfect score to the remastered DVD of the film. "No one ever forgets the experience of watching Threads. [...It] is arguably the most devastating piece of television ever produced. It's perfectly crafted, totally human and so completely harrowing you'll think that you'll probably never want to watch it again." He praised the pacing and Hines' "impeccable" screenplay and described its portrayal of the "immediate effects" of the bombing as "jaw-dropping [...] watching the survivors in the days and weeks to come is heart-breaking". [36] Both Little White Lies and The A.V. Club have emphasized the film's contemporary relevance, especially in light of political events such as Brexit. [37] [38] According to the former, the film paints a "nightmarish picture of a Britain woefully unprepared for what is coming, and reduced, when it does come, to isolation, collapse and medieval regression, with a failed health service, very little food being harvested, mass homelessness, and the pound and the penny losing all value". [37] Awards and nominations [ edit ] And it's this sharp, sudden detachment from reality which makes watching Threads such a numbing experience. Again and again, Ruth, the innocent citizen that represents us all, is bludgeoned by the harsh realities around her. Every inch of Threads is infected with a crushing sense of helplessness and it's this that upsets the most. However, much as Ruth continues to stagger onwards, you can't help but keep watching. To say it blunts your soul would be an understatement; I genuinely think that Threads rewires something deep inside of you to cope. Threads, filmed in Sheffield (my home city) in 1984 presents a warts and all view of the horrors of nuclear war and its aftermath. Mangan, Michael, ed. (1990). Threads and Other Sheffield Plays. Critical Stages. Vol.3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. p.234. ISBN 978-1-850-75140-3. ISSN 0953-0533.

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The BBC’s hard-hitting and unflinching nuclear fallout drama Threads was recently remastered and re-released on DVD. It has now been made available as a two-disc Blu-ray feature for the first time. Bartlett, Andrew (2004). "Nuclear Warfare in the Movies". Anthropoetics. UCLA. 10 (1). ISSN 1083-7264. Archived from the original on 28 June 2016 . Retrieved 5 January 2014. Evidence of a shift in global stability gradually begins to seep into Ruth and Jimmy's lives; the news brings nothing but escalating tensions and, in Sheffield, a massive redeployment of military resources is taking place. Life, of course, goes on for Ruth and Jimmy as they endeavour to decorate their flat and build a nest for their forthcoming child, but the very definition of what constitutes a home will soon be rewritten.These opening exchanges are indebted to the British kitchen sink realism of the 1960s, best popularised on film by the director Ken Loach. Indeed, Threads was written by Barry Hines, who adapted one of his own novels into the script for Loach’s 1969 masterpiece Kes. Hines was a proud Yorkshireman, and the dialogue in these first scenes – at the dinner table, the pub, the timber mill – carries all of his trademark ear for the demotic. A new, nuclear dawn soon arrives as all out nuclear war breaks out between the Americans and the Soviets. 3,000 megatons worth of nuclear weapons are exchanged between the two superpowers, with 210 megatons falling on the UK. The effects are devastating with every infrastructure in the country being reduced to a scorched shadow of its former self. An emergency response team, holed up deep beneath the remains of Sheffield town hall, attempt to exert relief, but they're thwarted at every turn by dwindling supplies and radioactive fallout. If military and world leaders watched this movie, I think it would bring us a little bit closer, to a non-nuclear more peaceful future. a b "Discover the post-apocalyptic nightmare of this landmark social drama". Archived from the original on 21 October 2020 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. Few who have seen Threads forget its impact. Toni Perrine, professor of film at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, recalls watching it shortly after it debuted on television in the US in 1985 (prefaced, unusually, by a personal introduction by TBS founder Ted Turner).