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User Reviews for: When the Wind Blows

moonkodi
6/10  7 years ago
More 80's propaganda themed stuff. Basically, let's kill the Russians before they kill us.

Felt like the characters were old soley so the film could relate to an uneducated, gullible, or care free viewer. The old lady was particularly stupid and irritating but provided comedy (if you like humour and not a more realistic reaction after the apocalypse.)

Presented with realistic dialogue to make it more relatable. The old woman saying 'there's a war on' brought back memories of how my nan would have spoken about the war. How they all would have spoken. That dialogue style never changed. Even after the bomb!

In this film after the bomb drops there is even a proud fighting Brit attitude against the 'rusties'. Later they throw in half of a Churchill speach.....Give me a break.

Too much nationalism makes you blind, crap writing or maybe a clever anti government message with a look at how ignorant we are? Unclear.

Pulls at every heart string and reminisces before unleashing horror. Tries very hard to be grim and the characters are too dumb. A sweet old couple who overdo it and are a pair of arse holes.

Obviously this film worked better in the 80's. I was a child in the 80's. I remember the dark looming feeling speaking to scared adults and watching TV. All putting fear into me.
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Reply by m0gb0y74
5 years ago
@moonkodi the film is so anti-nuclear war I don't know how you can miss it. This and a lot of other films of that era (threads, the day after etc.) where aiming to show that nuclear war would mean the end of civilisation and not the simple thing that government propaganda tried to make out. There was a generation who lived through WW2 who thought that nuclear war would be like the blitz and this is what the film is portraying and at the same time showing that they were so, so wrong. These were the same people who believed that the government wouldn't try to hood-wink them. To us now, this seems completely laughable but my grandparents were of that era and still had confidence in the government and believed the official notices about surviving the holocaust through putting doors up against the wall and that government and the emergency services would resume to normal within a matter of days!! <br /> <br /> The fear the film is meant to instil in the viewer, and did to many, was that of the prospect of nuclear war. Yes the enemy is Russia, but at the height of the cold war in the 80s that threat was very real - nobody thought of the threat from China/North Korea/Iran and rogue states. That is just the facts of the time - it's not an anti-Russia film.<br /> <br /> This film and its ilk are vital pieces of social and political history although now they look laughable. They got the message out that nuclear war would basically end the world! President Reagan is cited as saying that his viewing of The Day After prompted him to change his hardline stance with the Soviet Union and try to start a reduction in nuclear weapons as he wasn't aware of the true impact of a nuclear war. We have a lot to be thankful for...
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