THREADS

THREADS
   Made-for-tv film (1984). BBC-TV. Dir Mick Jackson, starring Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, June Broughton, Henry Moxon, Sylvia Stoker, David Brierly. Screenplay Barry Hines. 115 mins. Colour.
   This BBC production, at once a UK equivalent of The DAY AFTER (1983) and an attempt to update the harrowing vision of Peter WATKINS's The WAR GAME (1965), is an impressive and persuasive account of a near-future nuclear attack on the UK, focusing on the fate of Sheffield. Ordinary people are seen ignoring the escalating international crisis as they deal with their own problems - the heroine (Meagher) is a pregnant young girl unsure whether or not to marry - andare then shattered completely by the coming of war. The civil-defence forces cannot deal with the extent of the calamity, and traffic wardens are drafted to supervise summary executions of looters. The film mimics The War Game's documentary approach as it trots out disturbing statistics.Finally, it flashes forward a few years to show a medievalized post- HOLOCAUST UK, brutal and tribalized, bringing this resolutely non-sf treatment of an sf theme surprisingly close to the surreal horrors of Le DERNIER COMBAT (1983).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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