When the Wind Blows (1986)
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack... (imdb)
Country: UK
Directed By: Jimmy T. Murakami
Written By: Raymond Briggs
Starring: John Mills, Peggy Ashcroft, Robin Houston, James Russell, David Dundas, Matt Irving
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When the Wind Blows belongs to 12 collections
1. Features under 91 minutes (public: moderated by epiphany - 50 stars)
2. Fuck my life (public: moderated by Dorkovsky - 31 stars)
3. Best of criticker: Animation (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 8 stars)
4. Animated films - Not from Japan or USA. (public: moderated by gcat - 6 stars)
5. Best of criticker: War (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 5 stars)
6. Nuclear War (public: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
7. Based On Graphic Novel (public: moderated by JackDurden - 3 stars)
8. Cinema Sewer (public: moderated by mattburgess)
9. Post-Apocalypse (private: normalman - 1 star)
10. to watch [TG] (private: teckgecko)
11. BF-80 (private: caffe)
12. Films I watched in 2010 (private: jal90)
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At once an affirmation of life and a rebuke of the evil it’s capable of. The naïveté of the couple is devastating in their blind faith towards the society they wrongly believe will protect them, and yet, their fortitude of will to do their best despite their circumstance represents the best of our condition. There’s a sequence of the couple’s - Jim and Hilda’s - commitment, their quiet affirmation of living, that brought me to tears. The film is the very definition of Common Grace.
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| Mar 30, 2019 | Lonewolf2003 | 68 30% |
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The characters in this British animated movie about living through a nuclear attack are just so unbelievable unknowledgeable about nuclear war to have any emotional impact on me. And while that ignorance is necessary for the movie to work as a satirical indictment of futile government instructions about surviving a nuclear attack, the dark humor never really worked either, because it clashes with the emotional impact the movie is trying to go for.
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While it makes a great case about the horrors of war and radiation poisoning, my word, this couple is painfully naive and unconcerned. The psychology doesn't feel believable and that ruins some of the effect.
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BadCosmonaut | 8 94% |
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The UK's counterpart to Grave of the Fireflies, except with an awesome title track by David Bowie, Roger Water's on-the-nose score, and old people
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Jesus fuck, this movie just creeps up on you, like a dark, foreboding storm cloud on a summer afternoon. Not having read the source material, I thought I'd be witnessing this naive old couple foolishly react to some sort of mock government drill, rather than the actual scenario unfolding around them, a tragedy rendered all the more devastating through the sincere and honest depiction of its hopelessly oblivious characters. A sad little gem.
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Stera | 64 88% |
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An effectively depressing anti-war film that thankfully does not resort to needless melodrama. Its hybrid animation is not necessarily pretty, yet effective in setting the film's dreary tone. James and Hilda are not particularly likable or remarkably voiced, but still easy to sympathize with. It may not be as shocking or provocative as other films of the same type, but nevertheless "When the Wind Blows" is quite a noteworthy effort with a powerful message.
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Redundant but effective. The no country for old men of war movies.
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A black as soot satire on the government given advice for surviving nuclear fallout. Sad though not as devastating as people claim - the characters being played for humour means that they don't feel very realistic and can get on your nerves a bit making it difficult to emotionally invest in the film and the main animation style, mixing stop-motion and hand drawn animation, doesn't always work and at times just kicks you straight out of the film. Bleak? Yes. But rarely much more.
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A very disturbing film, but I'm glad that I watched it.
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Powerfull, sad stuff. Loved the mixing of cartoons with live-action footage, and with a soundtrack where David Bowie and Roger Waters join forces, it's a bona fide classic. I'm sure it's pretty famous in the UK, but I would never have heard of it if it wasn't referenced in the last Iron Maiden album!
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In denial from the moment they began playing in bomb shelters when they were young, it's sad, yet not surprising, that they meet the end they do. However, I suppose one could say they are the luckiest of the survivors. Ignorance of their coming fate allows them a few moments of bliss before David Bowie comes to get them.
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Powerful and effective.
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Emotional. The slightly crude animation just adds to how delicate and helpless they are. Classic.
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Perfect mixture of happiness and sadness. It reminds me of "La vita è bella" (R. Benigni), and somehow is curious the way these characters think about all those events happening, the way they change things just by comments. At first you will find them so natural, human, tender, than every little thing that goes wrong will really break you. One of the most interesting adult animated movies I've seen in a long time, and even better than some of the most common ones people use to talk about.
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