Review of The Day After (1983) by Neil P — 09 Apr 2011

I chose this as my favorite TV movie for a 30 day movie challenge that I am doing. I remember being in elementary school when this came out and I recall the large amount of discussion it brought up. It deals with the sobering fact of the level of devastation that would happen to humans if a nuclear war ever happened.

It even says at the end that it would be worse than how they present it in this movie and it is pretty devastating in this movie. It really is a movie that as many people in the world that can, should see.

Obviously many people know a Nuclear War would be devastating but this movie gives a depiction of how it would affect real people in literally middle America as it is set in Lawrence, Kansas. The pace of the movie is very slow but the pictures and events are very hard to look away from.

Highly recommended.