Threads really nailed the gloom and hopelessness you’d come to expect from a world ravaged from nuclear war. I’d rather die in the blast then survive to this horrible fate
I couldn't disagree with you. For a long time I wanted to survive a nuclear explosion but after watching this film it made me realize the dark reality of a nukes aftermath. Now I rather accept my fate with the blast then try to survive.
1:25 hits hard. Imagine spending your whole life with technology and this is the last time you will ever see farming equipment operate. It really solidifies the fact that things will never be the same again.
Fun fact (sort of): Threads was, one of the few Cold War related western films allowed to be distributed in the Soviet Union because its message was so powerful. According to scholars, Threads is quite optimistic on its predictions of what a post-War nuclear winter would look like.
Threads is optimistic in its depiction of nuclear winter? Threads based its nuclear winter on Carl Sagens description. He got it by taking a 1D mars climate simulation, badly modifying it to represent earth, using 1980s nuclear stockpiles but 1960s targets (back when they aimed at cities not military installations), accidently trippled the amount of combustible material in the target areas, and then ran the simulation repeatedly until he got an anomalously bad result, and punlished that. It was (well intended) scientific fraud. Even Sagan gave up trying to pretend it was remotely accurate after the same method predicted a global catastrophe followed the 1991 gulf war fires, which didn't happen.
Society would collapse and what was left would be run by warlords and private armies (likely led by ex-military or ex-police). They would hoard all the canned goods, bottled water, fuel, etc. If any harvest was brought in at all, it would be done by slaves at gunpoint.
1:46 Even the sky itself looks kind of f’ed up from the fallout and radiation. That does not look like normal nighttime (or even daytime, it’s hard to tell).
Its supposed to be daylight during a nuclear winter. Threads was written right at the start of nuclear winter hysteria, when Carl Sagen was still busy making stuff up to scare everyone into arms talks, but before anyone had time to pick apart hus fraudulent climate models.
God forbid this becomes a reality.....I want to be at ground zero when the bomb drops. Surviving this would be infinitely more horrific than the actual event.
It means a comeback to middle age and feudalism, basically like communism in Russia in the 20's and 30's. Anyway when electricity would came back again, civilization would have restored, obviously it's not a matters of few years.
I imagine the Prime Minister who's living comfortably in a bunker or a senior member of the government. It's possible the ordinary chain of command broke down and the military is now in control.
@@JD-Media Yes it's possible. I always wondered about that because the film does show how the emergency committee died, but never addressed the fate of other authorities
Los pocos que hallan quedado se los comieron los supervivientes o han aprendido alejarse lo suficiente de los humanos Europa fuera del Mediterráneo esta muerta básicamente, al menos ahí el clima es más benigno y la reconstrucción más viable
Algo curioso es que en ese escenario las zonas ricas del mundo se vuelven rápidamente las más miserables, sin comercio, imperialismo o tecnología vuelven a ser tan pobres y hostiles como lo fueron casi toda su historia Durante siglos Inglaterra no ofrecía más que lana, y ahora después del Armagedon ya nada puede ofrecer
Igualmente en una guerra nuclear al “sur global” tampoco le iría para nada bien, aunque no recibirán impactos directos el invierno nuclear y la radiación haría estragos en los cultivos, además que la dependencia de importaciones como tecnologías, fertilizantes y medicinas causarían más problemas, el comercio global estaría básicamente paralizado no importa donde vivas La mayoría del planeta moriría de hambre poco después.
Well this is the type of movie that doesn’t get a sequel as if the ending scene of this movie where Jane’s baby is a stillbirth symbolizes, humanity is fucked after nuclear Armageddon
@@jackakakreanxx5587 I think it's more to symbolize the future, deformed and horrific. Threads showcase's Britain rebuilding in the stills of coal power, but like in the film a visitor to museme it will be a grotquesqe immitation.
@@mauzki- while that is a possibility the fact that Jane's kid was a STILLbirth and not a horribly mutated child shows that the director intended to have the stillbirth symbolize humanities future after a game of nuclear Armageddon: F-U-C-K-E-D
Threads really nailed the gloom and hopelessness you’d come to expect from a world ravaged from nuclear war. I’d rather die in the blast then survive to this horrible fate
I couldn't disagree with you. For a long time I wanted to survive a nuclear explosion but after watching this film it made me realize the dark reality of a nukes aftermath. Now I rather accept my fate with the blast then try to survive.
1:25 hits hard. Imagine spending your whole life with technology and this is the last time you will ever see farming equipment operate. It really solidifies the fact that things will never be the same again.
You could always combine fats and alcohol to make biodiesel, but if that technology doesn't reach these communities then it does hit hard.
Fun fact (sort of): Threads was, one of the few Cold War related western films allowed to be distributed in the Soviet Union because its message was so powerful.
According to scholars, Threads is quite optimistic on its predictions of what a post-War nuclear winter would look like.
Threads is optimistic in its depiction of nuclear winter?
Threads based its nuclear winter on Carl Sagens description.
He got it by taking a 1D mars climate simulation, badly modifying it to represent earth, using 1980s nuclear stockpiles but 1960s targets (back when they aimed at cities not military installations), accidently trippled the amount of combustible material in the target areas, and then ran the simulation repeatedly until he got an anomalously bad result, and punlished that.
It was (well intended) scientific fraud.
Even Sagan gave up trying to pretend it was remotely accurate after the same method predicted a global catastrophe followed the 1991 gulf war fires, which didn't happen.
The Nuclear winter theory has largely been moved on from and relied on flawed presumptions. I would doubt those scholars very much
It’s actually not as bad as originally believed and society would rebuild way faster than you would expect
@@MrBaldwickisn’t the nuclear winter thing moot anyways as we’ve largely switched to hydrogen bombs?
Society would collapse and what was left would be run by warlords and private armies (likely led by ex-military or ex-police). They would hoard all the canned goods, bottled water, fuel, etc. If any harvest was brought in at all, it would be done by slaves at gunpoint.
Its so real….it scars me to this day
I like threads because so many apocalypse movies show the entire military collapsing instantly.
1:46
Even the sky itself looks kind of f’ed up from the fallout and radiation. That does not look like normal nighttime (or even daytime, it’s hard to tell).
what happens is so much ash is thrown into the air that is blocks out the sun for years on end
Basically nuclear winter
@@Bobby_7342mhm
Its supposed to be daylight during a nuclear winter.
Threads was written right at the start of nuclear winter hysteria, when Carl Sagen was still busy making stuff up to scare everyone into arms talks, but before anyone had time to pick apart hus fraudulent climate models.
God forbid this becomes a reality.....I want to be at ground zero when the bomb drops. Surviving this would be infinitely more horrific than the actual event.
Thanks for posting these clips
An absolute nightmare
Wow who knew living in Grimsby had gotten so bad...and before any of you start I'm from Hull I can tell this joke...
Even to the gloomy standards of this movie, this looks optimistic, why would starving people be so altruistic as to not keep everything for themselves
Do you not see the soldier watching over them?
@@Fishfingers232 corruption would probably be widespread
@@widepootisbut with what?
You probably forgot to factor in the lack of modern medicine meant your chances of death would be higher, but hey more food for everyone.
It means a comeback to middle age and feudalism, basically like communism in Russia in the 20's and 30's. Anyway when electricity would came back again, civilization would have restored, obviously it's not a matters of few years.
WALL-E would take over after all of this.
So grim
I wonder who is the speaker suppose to be
I think the film is supposed to be part movie, part documentary, like a docudrama.
@@ApertureAce
Sorry I wasn't clear - I didn't mean the narrator/speaker, but rather the radio announcer (at the beginning)
I imagine the Prime Minister who's living comfortably in a bunker or a senior member of the government. It's possible the ordinary chain of command broke down and the military is now in control.
@@JD-Media
Yes it's possible. I always wondered about that because the film does show how the emergency committee died, but never addressed the fate of other authorities
PSA announcer. That voice had been across most of the movie, showing what to do in case of nuclear attack, useless as the movie shows.
Where are the animals?
dead
@@mattickista💯
Los pocos que hallan quedado se los comieron los supervivientes o han aprendido alejarse lo suficiente de los humanos
Europa fuera del Mediterráneo esta muerta básicamente, al menos ahí el clima es más benigno y la reconstrucción más viable
@@panchosangurima3616 si es que no transformaron a toda ciudad con mas de 50 mil personas en el mediterráneo en un desierto nuclear.
The skeleton of a cat. A cat's skeleton.
Algo curioso es que en ese escenario las zonas ricas del mundo se vuelven rápidamente las más miserables, sin comercio, imperialismo o tecnología vuelven a ser tan pobres y hostiles como lo fueron casi toda su historia
Durante siglos Inglaterra no ofrecía más que lana, y ahora después del Armagedon ya nada puede ofrecer
Igualmente en una guerra nuclear al “sur global” tampoco le iría para nada bien, aunque no recibirán impactos directos el invierno nuclear y la radiación haría estragos en los cultivos, además que la dependencia de importaciones como tecnologías, fertilizantes y medicinas causarían más problemas, el comercio global estaría básicamente paralizado no importa donde vivas
La mayoría del planeta moriría de hambre poco después.
Y considerando que los países más pobres no son atacados directamente, ellos se vuelven rápidamente las últimas civilizaciones en pie
@@kakhuuulos países latinoamericanos serían los últimos en pie
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i want to see a sequel following ruths daughter and how the country rebuilds
Well this is the type of movie that doesn’t get a sequel as if the ending scene of this movie where Jane’s baby is a stillbirth symbolizes, humanity is fucked after nuclear Armageddon
That would give you hope, which is exactly what this film is trying not to do...
Humanity is not rebuilding here. They will probably die out in a few generations
@@jackakakreanxx5587 I think it's more to symbolize the future, deformed and horrific. Threads showcase's Britain rebuilding in the stills of coal power, but like in the film a visitor to museme it will be a grotquesqe immitation.
@@mauzki- while that is a possibility the fact that Jane's kid was a STILLbirth and not a horribly mutated child shows that the director intended to have the stillbirth symbolize humanities future after a game of nuclear Armageddon:
F-U-C-K-E-D
despite the fact that I’m Russian (and don’t respect the hedonism of the British), I feel sorry for the British
You should feel sorry for most people regardless of religion, borders, culture, etc. Obviously with some exceptions.