I was 15 when I saw it as it first aired in the UK. I found it slightly reassuring, it was nowhere near as bleak as I wa
-
-
tgs333 — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 01:04 PM)
Sound like a movie I would enjoy. Problem is where can I find it? Netflix nor Amazon seem to have it.
wtey, it's here on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/18781528
free and it is good quality. Enjoy. Well, try to, hard to "enjoy" this movie.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep." -
d_rutger — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 08:31 AM)
It was an interesting movie, but I didn't enjoy it. The main thing that killed it for me was the fact that it only took, what, 10 years for people to forget how regular English works. That really was my biggest gripe with the entire thing.
-
greg-233 — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 11:13 PM)
"The main thing that killed it for me was the fact that it only took, what, 10 years for people to forget how regular English works."
It's not really that people forgot how to speak proper English, it's just that the only ones we really heard doing much talking were the children born after the war. When there's nothing to read and no one to write to, literacy among the postwar generation is bound to be undeveloped. There was actually a character in
The Day of the Triffids
who warned what would happen if the survivors failed to establish a stable community:
"If there are children we shall be able to spare only enough time from our labour to give them just a rudimentary education; one generation further, and we shall have savages or clods."
The world in that story wasn't devastated by a nuclear holocaust, but the situation was still grim from the survivors' point of view. (Most of the Earth's population had gone blind.)