THE WAR GAME comes with a heavy reputation and was shown for the very first time on British television in 1985 , twenty years after it was first filmed - and banned - by the BBC. As a docu-drama it carries a punch perhaps not a strong a punch as THREADS but still a killer knockout punch with deeply disturbing images
The problem though is the polemical view that Watkins takes. People are asked about retaliation in the event of a nuclear strike , retaliation being the whole point of deterance - something Watkins fails to point out , and about strontuim 90 , a question that seems offensive in its smugness when people give the wrong answer. Oh and Watkins bashes the Church too ,very radical I must say . Christian CND - never heard of it
So all in all deeply disturbing stuff spoiled slightly by Watkins patronizing attitude that never allows the viewers to think for themselves.Very much better than THE DAY AFTER , not as good as THREADS
The problem though is the polemical view that Watkins takes. People are asked about retaliation in the event of a nuclear strike , retaliation being the whole point of deterance - something Watkins fails to point out , and about strontuim 90 , a question that seems offensive in its smugness when people give the wrong answer. Oh and Watkins bashes the Church too ,very radical I must say . Christian CND - never heard of it
So all in all deeply disturbing stuff spoiled slightly by Watkins patronizing attitude that never allows the viewers to think for themselves.Very much better than THE DAY AFTER , not as good as THREADS