Review of The Day After (1983) by Mikhail B — 09 Jan 2012
A powerful and compelling call for peace. The movie was filmed during the hight of the cold war and intense armament race between the USSR and the United States and was based on the real witnesses of the Japanese Nagasaki bombing, making us dwell on what could have happened in the USA or in Russia in case of a full-scale nuclear strike, illustrating Einstein's words: "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
" The sequences that could have been vividly gore have been dimmed, still at the time the movie was released it contained the most frightening and disturbing scenes. The political issues have been so carefully handled that in times of thorough censorship, it ran in Soviet cinemas uncut.
I ready don't know whether it had the same impact on the American audience as it did on the Russian one. Unfortunately, today this film looks visually outdated in terms of effects.
This review of The Day After (1983) was written by Mikhail B on 09 Jan 2012.
The Day After has generally received positive reviews.
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