What The Hell is Wrong With Us? When The Wind Blows

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  • @thecollector75
    @thecollector75 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This work has effected me my whole life.... I can never watch this again.... I cry every time I think about it . So powerful

    • @ExaggeratedElegy
      @ExaggeratedElegy  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Graham! Likewise. I remember watching it as a child and being so phenomenally disturbed by it all. I always promise myself the same, then go creeping back to it and find it powerful and disturbing all over again.

    • @mattridgley9095
      @mattridgley9095 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly the same for me. I watched it when it came out and avoided seeing it again...the soundtrack is worth checking out though. Mostly Roger Waters if I recall.

    • @wilkinsmusicfl4141
      @wilkinsmusicfl4141 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I bought this for $6 off Amazon Prime last night. I believe it got remastered. The animation was much smoother. Still a very impactful film.
      The characters are relatable people because they are so common.

    • @andrewbillington2337
      @andrewbillington2337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely agree. I saw it when it first came out and then last year. It hasn’t lost any of its impact over that time and in the current climate it is just as terrifying!

    • @chase36chase
      @chase36chase 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      saw it once 2006, bought it on DVD , couldnt watch it again. i cried soo much , watching it

  • @rachelg7175
    @rachelg7175 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I have a handful of movies that I'm so grateful I watched but can never bring myself to watch again. This is one of them.
    This movie changed my perspective on the world permanently but I'll never be able to watch it again.

  • @alanaspinall7147
    @alanaspinall7147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I always found the distant cries of the dog the most disturbing part of the animated movie.

    • @DVincentW
      @DVincentW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes I recall that. Many innocent lives murdered.. ghastly to know we're closer than ever in today's world.. take care.

  • @Goldi3loxrox
    @Goldi3loxrox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    i remember in 1983 when i was 13 we received that protect and survive booklet in the post. My parents didnt do anything with it and it ended up on top of our fridge. i guess they decided if the bomb went off we would be finished. We did live near a ministry of defence development centre so probably were a target. I still remember the fear of it all. .

  • @mungojack
    @mungojack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rewatched this today. What a chilling piece of apocalyptic art, the tone of the animation is just perfect, I can almost smell the scenes being played out.
    Having just been through the global issues of 2020 this is a reminder of how little we should still trust our "powers that be" with our collective well-being.
    Bravo 👏

  • @MDBowron
    @MDBowron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    RIP Raymond Briggs you wrote and drew a few good ones

  • @DVincentW
    @DVincentW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I treasure this film..

  • @frazer3191
    @frazer3191 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well that made me kind of cry. What’s eerie is As the credits come up, I look up from the tablet and see on the tv news a British retired general discussing the possible scenarios in which Russia would use “tactical nuclear weapons” and the image showing a Ukrainian city blown to bits with shells.
    Rapidly realising there is no plan and no way out. If it happens they fire their nukes, we fire ours, and everybody dies. This is how the real politique of the western world really is and really comes down to. It’s MAD. Actual insanity. Why haven’t we spent the last 50 years developing missile defences and technology to make nukes obsolete and irrelevant. After just watching this for the first time ever - I wish Reagan’s Star Wars defence system actually existed.
    We are crammed in here on the U.K. like sardines in a can. If Putin really is crazy then what the F do we do? 😳 I’m 35 and never felt I live in a dystopian farce. We are Just over COVID and the lockdowns and all the death and despair. and now we all have a war in Europe, that might go global, and may even go nuclear. This is me thinking 2022 would be better this year. Dystopian farce that’s reality in 2022. All of us held hostage by some ex KGB thug loon. EDIT: 21/10/22 plus electricity blackouts have been announced for February 2023 - we apparently can’t even keep the lights on - literally. the economy is in free fall the Truss government has fallen in less than 7 weeks. The nations adored and longest reigning monarch has died and the new kings government is in abject chaos and confusion. The Russians have blown up the North Sea gas pipeline and have cut - severed the internet and communication lines between Shetland islands and the mainland U.K. Oh and China are circling Taiwan and all war games show 🇺🇸 will be defeated if they try and intervene. 700 billion a year 🇺🇸 spends on defence plus a trillion or so on the black budget and they can’t end Putin and save Taiwan. Iran is weeks away from acquiring nuclear breakout capability, The president Vice President and speaker in 🇺🇸 are senile. Actually gone. Full loons all three of them. And there is no one actually in charge in 🇬🇧 as I right this.
    You couldn’t make any of this up. Absolute complete farce.
    Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

    • @CashelOConnolly
      @CashelOConnolly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hilda: Shall we... pray, dear?
      Jim: Pray?
      Hilda: Yes.
      Jim: All right then... But... to who?
      Hilda: God, of course.
      Jim: Oh, oh, oh, I see... Yes, yes... Would that be the correct thing?
      Hilda: It can't do any harm, dear.
      Jim: Ok, um... Here it goes... Dear sir...
      Hilda: No, that's wrong, dear.
      Jim: Well, uh... How, how do you start?
      Hilda: Our God...
      Jim: -our help, in ages past...
      Hilda: That's it, dear. Keep it up.
      Jim: Almighty and most merciful father...
      Hilda: That's good.
      Jim: Dearly beloved... we are gathered... unto thee. I shall fear no evil. Thy rod and thy staff comfort me all the days of my life.
      [beginning to suffocate]
      Jim: Lay me down in green pastures... I... I can't remember anymore.
      Hilda: That was nice, dear. I liked the bit about the green pastures.
      Jim: Oh, yes, yes. Into the valley of the shadow of death...
      Hilda: Oh, no more love. No more.
      Jim: ...rode the six hundred.
      [they die]

    • @Srakch
      @Srakch ปีที่แล้ว

      It has got worse here mate, not gonna lie. We're proper fucked.

  • @CashelOConnolly
    @CashelOConnolly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Sir John Mills are magnificent as Hilda and Jim.
    Hilda: Shall we... pray, dear?
    Jim: Pray?
    Hilda: Yes.
    Jim: All right then... But... to who?
    Hilda: God, of course.
    Jim: Oh, oh, oh, I see... Yes, yes... Would that be the correct thing?
    Hilda: It can't do any harm, dear.
    Jim: Ok, um... Here it goes... Dear sir...
    Hilda: No, that's wrong, dear.
    Jim: Well, uh... How, how do you start?
    Hilda: Our God...
    Jim: -our help, in ages past...
    Hilda: That's it, dear. Keep it up.
    Jim: Almighty and most merciful father...
    Hilda: That's good.
    Jim: Dearly beloved... we are gathered... unto thee. I shall fear no evil. Thy rod and thy staff comfort me all the days of my life.
    [beginning to suffocate]
    Jim: Lay me down in green pastures... I... I can't remember anymore.
    Hilda: That was nice, dear. I liked the bit about the green pastures.
    Jim: Oh, yes, yes. Into the valley of the shadow of death...
    Hilda: Oh, no more love. No more.
    Jim: ...rode the six hundred.
    [they die]

  • @phenixwryter
    @phenixwryter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Oh, this is an excellent discussion topic. I've watched this movie many times. I'm going to settle in and listen to y'all before I add anything to this comment.
    What a great discussion! Thanks so much for sharing it with us.
    There is a vid on youtube of a book reading with the pictures titled: When the Wind Blows - 1982 [Full Comic] (Remastered Version).
    I love this story, and I'm afraid of the story as well. It drives home just what we can lose that can never be replaced. The doom looming even from the start of the story is like a deep rumble of a coming storm. As the story goes on, the rumbling grows louder. It was cute to see them argue about which radio channel to listen to while they dined. It was interesting that it was not broadcast on the radio as to whom was threatening the city with the nuclear attack. Its also interesting that they talk about war leaders of WW2, but never discuss the nuclear bombs that the USA dropped on Japan. The final horrific news on the radio that the nuclear bomb attack was imminent is hair raising.
    I've heard a distant rumble of that kind, thank goodness it abated, when I was a kid and they taught us to hide under our school desks from the nuclear bomb attack back during the Missiles of October, which we now know would have been utterly useless. Folks were scared half to death. As a kid, the adults being upset made me upset even though I didn't know exactly what was going on. Now that I know, it scares me even more. Its the only time my nation set some of our military at DEFCON 2.
    Even today, it seems some folks think they'll ride the storm out and take up where they left off, which is not going to happen no matter where one lives if we have a nuclear holocaust.
    For me, the heart strings were constantly pulled as we watched them preparing for disaster. The futile actions of getting out their collection of little bottles and filling them with water illustrates how little they understood what could happen. A tray of food to tide them over. Wooden doors propped against the walls. He took the doors off the house to make their shelter, including the outer door! Bless his little heart. She worried about her pillows. Put the screws for the doors in the dish on the shelf so they wouldn't get lost. In the movie, it hurt my heart to hear her words repeated, The cake will be burned!
    Did you notice they didn't wonder aloud how their son Ron and his family made out? The city was blasted to pieces.
    I think they also eventually figured out they were dying, but didn't want to acknowledge it to one another to stave off any discussion about it. To talk about it would have made it too real for them. I think at the last they donned the shroud like potato sacks to hide their eyes from death, and laid down together.
    I seriously hope this bitter sweet story scares the crap out of folks. We are so fragile, and so is our existence.
    “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer

    • @ExaggeratedElegy
      @ExaggeratedElegy  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You know, I never noticed that they never enquire after Ron and the rest? You're right; there is a subtext of horrific, unspoken acknowledgement as the story progresses. They just can't face it; that everything they've done and believed in has failed.
      I hope so, too. I hope it scares people enough to realise.
      Thanks so much for your comment!

    • @bluesap7318
      @bluesap7318 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Guck this comment taste so *GOOD!*

    • @DonnaBrooks
      @DonnaBrooks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For some perspective, Oppenheimer was talking about the ATOMIC bomb, a nuclear FISSION weapon. A HYDROGEN bomb needs an ATOMIC bomb just to detonate it! THERMONUCLEAR weapons use nuclear FUSION and the largest one ever tested was the Tsar Bomba, which was 3,333 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
      Here's an EXCELLENT video that explains how thermonuclear weapons work: th-cam.com/video/fYuVzbIu_8o/w-d-xo.html
      While not as informative, this video will give you a sense of the scale of nuclear weapons, including the Tsar Bomba: th-cam.com/video/fs1CIrwg5zU/w-d-xo.html There are other vids on the Tsar Bomba here on YT, but I haven't watched them so I can't recommend which ones to watch.

  • @thuggie1
    @thuggie1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 5 when I first watched it

  • @rowanstree
    @rowanstree 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This was a wonderful discussion about a shockingly relevant piece of work. And I could not be in greater agreement with the politics that emerged out of this subject matter.

    • @ExaggeratedElegy
      @ExaggeratedElegy  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was one of the most interesting and bizarrely traumatic experiences returning to this work. It's a rare piee that actually hurts to experience, dredging up all manner of personal and philosophical associations. Not sure if, as and when I'll return to it, but I wonder what it will be like after this?

    • @markcarrington8380
      @markcarrington8380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah the mindless optimist/patriot might suggest we came out of the 80s fairly well we,ll come out of Brexit okay too with the very Blitz spirit of which you speak and condemn in the same sentence. I wouldn’t say that though. The same Patriots missed the point though don’t they whereas we can re-enter the European Union at a later date how long before we might meaningfully reinhabit this sceptred isle after having enjoyed a nuclear incident.

  • @bouncingbluesoul5270
    @bouncingbluesoul5270 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is another Briggs book with the same characters called 'Gentleman Jim'

    • @MrStickman1997
      @MrStickman1997 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think that's somewhat of a prequel to When The Wind Blows, I looked at the book, Jim and Hilda look younger...
      After their time in the war, but before the Cold War and Nuclear Apocalypse.

  • @gazza2933
    @gazza2933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hauntingly Brilliant!

  • @davidl5365
    @davidl5365 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is brilliant but soo sad . But could happen .

  • @ludwignabucostein2025
    @ludwignabucostein2025 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome , smart and very touching movie.

  • @1marilynable
    @1marilynable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love that you guys brought up the narrative that people think gay people are sexual. I'm gay and I'm not very sexual at all. Kids should know about gay people at a young age. That way it normalizes it when they meet people in the LGBTQ community.

  • @TisTheDamnStickSeason
    @TisTheDamnStickSeason 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "The apocalypse of the moment is climate change". Meanwhile in 2022 😭😭😭

  • @jakeg6597
    @jakeg6597 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    None of this is the movie. Does anyone have the movie?

    • @tiffani1063
      @tiffani1063 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s free on tubi

  • @ariannaswift1137
    @ariannaswift1137 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where can i watch it

  • @balthiersgirl2658
    @balthiersgirl2658 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    And you fool's think this is the past