Watching this as it aired (in the 80s) + disturbing scene screenshot
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lovingtouch05 — 13 years ago(September 12, 2012 06:19 PM)
I was about 12 myself when the movie came out. I think it was a re-run, but it affected me as well. Oddly enough, I had YouTube'd the movie a few months ago. Even though it's a movie, it still had the same affect on me then, and it did when I was a kid.
Everything was the same as I remember it. Graphic, to the point. -
fearforthefuture — 13 years ago(September 21, 2012 02:26 AM)
We were made to watch it in history when I was about 14 (1994) and it had a massive impact on me. "This is the skeleton of a bird. This is a bird's skeleton" - shudder!
After we'd finished watching it, most of us sat dumb-struck and horrified, our teacher said "Now, I don't want to worry you, but there are nuclear warheads pointed at us as we speak". It did not go down well. -
djmattm2002-913-491227 — 9 years ago(August 11, 2016 07:30 PM)
Exactly. Sheltering and coddling children (despite being well-intentioned) sets them up to be soft and naive as adults. We live in a world that isn't always fair, accepting or compassionate. People raised to have stronger intuition and boundaries adjust the easiest while those raised to be weak-minded tend to have a tougher time. I don't expect everyone to agree with this, just has been my observations.
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CorpseCandle — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 03:35 PM)
I don't think anyone is raised to be "weak minded" as that wouldn't make sense. Some kids are just more sensitive than others.
Besides part of the reason why the world is unfair is because we don't always raise children to think of the impact of their actions. That said I think seeing Threads isn't any form of abuse, it was made with a distinct purpose and served as a great of shocking form of education about nuclear weapons.
It would be far more dangerous to raise kids on propaganda about nuclear arms and pretend that the more we have the safer we are. -
danreeves21 — 13 years ago(May 29, 2012 08:51 AM)
Watched it the night it was aired on BBC1 in 1984. I was 11 years old and it had a profound affect on me. Downloaded and watched it again late last year and realised that it really had seared itself into my mind. It's sense of hopelessness in the face of beyond overwhelming catastrophe is very numbing. To think that wardrums are sounding around the country at the centre of the crisis in the scenario at the start of the film is actually very chilling, the politics and alliances might be different now, but the desire for war is not. My eldest son is 11 next year, there is no way I would let him watch this film
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calypso18 — 13 years ago(July 02, 2012 12:19 PM)
I live in Sheffield!
It was very strange to see buildings I am so familiar with explode during the attack scene, although now in Sheffield almost 30 years later some things have changed, in particular the town hall building that the council were trapped under has now gone (we used to call it the egg box building)In the film the captions read that a bomb that denotates over the Tinsley Viaduct - I work next to that Viaduct that often crosses my mind when I go to work. The church the Becketts go to is near my Aunties house. When the councillors trapped underground talk to the Stocksbridge police Stocksbridge is about 5 miles from where I live.
In reality when the first bomb explodes and Jimmy goes to find Ruth he would never have made it, the area she lives in is quite a distance from where the timber yard was, but I suppose in the event you would do what you could to get to your loved ones.
I love (if love is the word) this film, it has a strange addiction that I think comes from the fact it is so horrible, and could happen quite easily. -
shstrang98 — 13 years ago(December 12, 2012 02:02 PM)
.and could happen quite easily.
..and very likely will happen, sorry to say. What's really sad is the innocent that will suffer such as children and babies.
And technologically we have accomplished so much and have come so far yet we're just animals and unfortunately react like animals as well.
I worry about what the future holds for my little girl and I'm powerless to stop it. -
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mhk76 — 13 years ago(October 24, 2012 03:23 PM)
If I had seen this in the 80's I probably wouldn't have slept until the mid 90's. Seriously, this is a film that all world leaders should be forced to watch at least once a year.
"Bastards!" the best line in the movie. Executed with such a feeling. -
ryujingt3 — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 04:54 PM)
I first watched this at school in Religious Education class. We watched it in two parts. I have seen many violent movies, played many violent games and seen violence and destruction first hand but this movie is the only film I have ever seen (still) that I find truly scary.
The hospital scene sits with me the most. There are times when I watch Threads, when life is bad, to remind myself that life could be a whole lot worse and that I should be grateful for what I have. Threads made me vehemently anti-nuclear and one day I want to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki and pay my respect to those who sadly perished. -