Review of Threads (1985) by Jluis_001 — 13 Jul 2018

This is the kind of film that hype around it increases its quality for many people when in fact they're not so good and if there is something that should be stressed about Threads is that it's not a great film.

Beyond its harrowing portrait on the consequences of a nuclear war and nuclear fallout the film offers very little of anything that could be called narrative. Evidently its documentary style is largely to blame for that because the film only passes from one point to another without anything sustaining it more than the consequences of the nuclear attack, there's really nothing more, the ending is the best proof because the horror stop out of the blue but it could easily go on and on.

The film itself after the attack is horrible, despairing, bitter, painful and not only because the images are graphic but because they represent a very possible reality. Here you cannot finish the film and then turn on the lights knowing the disaster or the killer are just fiction.

Nuclear war has always been a terrible possibility for humanity since those weapons were conceived, today it would probably be worse and in spite of everything, the teaching of the horrors that could be unchained never seem to be enough, because as we saw recently, it was downplayed to see who had the biggest button.