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[Maggieb90]

Just watched this, not for the faint hearted. originally shown in the 80's. Terrifying and a real possibility it could happen in the near future, thinking of Putin, North Korea etc....

The most horrific film I've ever seen but also absolutely brilliant.
If you search you'll find a few "threads" on it from a few weeks ago when BBC4 showed it for the first time in years

Thanks, I agree, absolutely brilliant. I did a search on here but couldn't find anything, I think putting 'Threads' in the threads caused confusion 😆

I watched this, when it was originally aired.
My childhood officially ended, that day.
The atmosphere at school, the following day, was awful. We were all traumatised - and I don't use that word lightly.

I watched it again, several years ago, in my 40s, to see if it was as grim as I remembered. It was.

I'm not surprised you were traumatised, being so young, it's hard enough watching it as an adult, I think it's too horrifying for kids. I'd heard so much about it, now realise why. Has stayed with me and left a great unease in my mind, too close to home. DH could only watch h half of it, before deciding it would give him nightmares! It is making me appreciate small things in life and trying to live in the moment...

Really profound piece of film-making. However, I found watching it again recently on a (not especially large) HD TV made it feel less "real". I think When The Wind Blows is the one that always gets me the most, because it was the first one I saw, when I was about 13, and the characters set so much stock by doing everything in the pamphlet as if that will help them.

It's the bloody inescapable hopelessness of it all, really.