Are there any bleaker films out there?
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plutomani — 12 years ago(May 19, 2013 06:16 AM)
Like one of the earlier posters I was thinking about Letters from a Dead Man as a likely candidate. The thing that stands out to me in that movie is how utterly filthy everything is presented: Absolutely nothing is left but a radioactive wasteland of ruined concrete bunkers, rust, decay, sickness, orphans, suicides and depression. And it all takes place in a sickly yellowish atmosphere no-one survives in without massive protection. The world (and mankind with it) seems to be utterly doomed.
Threads have much of the same bleak outlook, but while it seemed like the UK was going to hell I never really got the impression the entire world was in the same situation. In LFADM the protagonist openly speculate that the human race faces extinction.
On the other hand, one of the strongest aspects of Threads is to show how society collapse, while in LFADM everything is in chaos from the beginning. -
swaroberts — 12 years ago(May 29, 2013 03:54 PM)
The War Game, made by the BBC in 1965 was deemed by the directors to be too bleak to air and so didn't get shown on TV until 1985. It shows the real effects of nuclear war and is much bleaker than Threads and also has very disturbing imagery such as a young boy who's eyes are melted by the flash.
Bearing in mind that bombs are much more destructive now 50 years later it makes you think that if there was a war now there really probably wouldn't be any survivors at all after a few years. -
steven-87 — 12 years ago(August 19, 2013 02:20 AM)
In terms of the final outcome and all its repercussions, then "Fail Safe" would be (and, of course, covers the same ground) but "Threads" shows this in detail and, as such, is bleaker on a one-to-one level.
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littlebigman1 — 11 years ago(May 18, 2014 09:57 AM)
On the beach the new version. when the young Australian couple with their toddler decide rather than face death by radiation they will take their own lives with the government issued drug suicide kits.then the wife begs her husband at the end they have just one more day.very heavy scene!
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kimloss-89639 — 9 years ago(August 03, 2016 11:34 AM)
quiet earth
http://www.imdb.com/board/10089869/?ref_=nv_sr_1