And, no matter how many times I watch it, the unflinching honesty of Threads leaves me feeling incredibly disconsolate, but completely engrossed. A few niggles: when convenient some buildings still intact, including windows; Ruth's daughter has fillings in her molars; when fall-out is still an immediate hazard, soldiers are patrolling without protection; radiation sickness seems to have left some survivors alone completely; starving people look remarkably well fed. He goes over the history of the production and the people involved with it, as well as his feelings about the film itself. There are some brilliant directorial touches by Mick Jackson (who went on to make The Bodyguard) such as depicting the explosion in pockets of disorientating silence, and picking out graphic details of human and animal remains burning amongst the rubble. Ruth takes a number of these vermin away in a tatty Gateway bag to put together a depressing meal which will provide barely any of the essential nutrients her body craves.

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I was in high school so apart from a nuclear threat of a 30 minute war over my head I was also reading George Orwell. The detonation causes massive structural damage to Sheffield, and an estimated 12 to 30 million people in the UK are instantly killed in the wider exchange, including Jimmy as he races to be with Ruth. It was first broadcast on BBC Two on 23 September 1984 at 9:30 pm, and achieved the highest ratings on the channel (6. The narrator states the cruel irony that the more people die, the more food is available for the remaining people.

This, after all, isn't Hollywood, it's the terraced streets of 1980s Sheffield, a city caught up in strikes and economic hardships. Like all the very best art, Threads challenges conventions, induces extreme emotions and delivers a truly unique experience. I think that is because even though it is indeed a fantasy, it is a fantasy based on utter reality and the ugly facts of nuclear war and human suffering. The final scene with Jason Robards reduced to a pale zombie and saying "get out of my house" to another survivor, who then embraces him is heart-breaking. And, now, after undergoing a 2K restoration from the original 16mm prints, Threads has been remastered for DVD by Simply Media in a two-disc release.

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The restoration work that led to the release of the DVD in April 2018 provided the best viewing experience of the film to date.According to the former, the film paints a "nightmarish picture of a Britain woefully unprepared for what is coming, and reduced, when it does come, to isolation, collapse and medieval regression, with a failed health service, very little food being harvested, mass homelessness, and the pound and the penny losing all value". Overcome by a sense of urgency, Jackson – then a documentary maker at the BBC – first set about producing an episode for science series QED, entitled A Guide to Armageddon.