When the Wind Blows (1986)

Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago at Apr 19 15:50

The storyline goes that when given warning of air raid attacks from Soviet forces an elderly couple draw on their past experiences on the Second World War to build a bomb proof shelter and 'tough it out' instead of evacuating. When the bomb which falls turns out to be an atomic one, their homemade shelter is obvious rendered obsolete. From here on the cartoon becomes rather harrowing. As you watch the sweet old couple (of whom any one can project their own grandparents onto) fall pray to the slow internal cirrhosis cause by radiation poisoning. I watched this film at school in terror, knowing that if this was one day to happen during my life time that what I was watching unfold before my eyes would too be my fate. The film was released in 1986, so at the time it had massive politica...Read more

Rating : 8/10