A lot of actors walking around with lamp black on their face, a horrible vision of what no doubt would have been a horrible situation -- were it to have occurred. Of course it didn't occur which puts it on the plane of the "meteor destroys the Earth" plane of science fiction film except that it takes itself very seriously.
There are no answers in the movie, just an underlying attempt to ridicule any means of response. Since the holocaust was supposed to have occurred in 1980 in the movie, it is already demonstrated to be completely off base in its assumptions, a Malthusianesque curiosity dressed up in period costumes.
One supposes, based on its BBC source, that it might also be well categorized as a propaganda movie designed to demoralize Britain into disarmament. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, the West went on to win the Cold War under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and the sentiments of the movie were left to stew in its pile of bankrupt nihilism having ultimately failed in its purpose.
Definitely worth seeing, as is any propaganda film of the period, just to view the tools and methods of the losing side in the Cold War. And to confirm that the BBC hasn't changed much in its far left orientation and outlook.
There are no answers in the movie, just an underlying attempt to ridicule any means of response. Since the holocaust was supposed to have occurred in 1980 in the movie, it is already demonstrated to be completely off base in its assumptions, a Malthusianesque curiosity dressed up in period costumes.
One supposes, based on its BBC source, that it might also be well categorized as a propaganda movie designed to demoralize Britain into disarmament. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, the West went on to win the Cold War under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and the sentiments of the movie were left to stew in its pile of bankrupt nihilism having ultimately failed in its purpose.
Definitely worth seeing, as is any propaganda film of the period, just to view the tools and methods of the losing side in the Cold War. And to confirm that the BBC hasn't changed much in its far left orientation and outlook.