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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by inopinatus on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:58PM (#14102867)
If we're trading recommendations of harrowing things to watch, may I nominate Isao Takahata's "Grave of the Fireflies", the story of two children trying to survive in Japan towards the end of the Second World War in the face of a callous, indifferent world.

The only animated feature that is guaranteed to make this grown man weep like there's no tomorrow.

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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by pmoriarty on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:08PM (#14102898)
Also check out Barefoot Gen, a manga based on an eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima.[1][2]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Barefoot-Gen-Vol-Cartoon-Hiroshima/dp...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen

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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by ivanb on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:18AM (#14104569)
There is also an absolutely harrowing anime Barefoot Gen. I remember when it came out on TV (90s Russia) all the kids who saw it were greatly affected.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by Anechoic on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:36PM (#14103044)
I nominate Isao Takahata's "Grave of the Fireflies"

It's a great movie, but if you are going to watch, I highly recommend that you don't watch it alone and that you have something "fun" planned afterwords - maybe a fun dumb movie like The Hangover, play with your dog in the park, etc. Do not watch it by yourself and then go to bed. It is really haunting.

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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by ekianjo on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:18PM (#14103294)
Excellent movie, but the Grave of the Fireflies does not talk about the end of civilization as we know it, so it's a little out of topic.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by PhasmaFelis on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:54AM (#14104264)
It was certainly the end of civilization as the protagonists knew it.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by ekianjo on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:05PM (#14108181)
That's not what the end of civilization means at all. It's not like the country had no structure any more. There were still families, bomb shelters and alerts, certainly nothing close to the end of civilization that occurs like in Threads.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by ocschwar on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:23AM (#14106608)
Letting children starve is a marker for the end of civilization as I define it.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by ekianjo on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:03PM (#14108166)
Did you watch the movie ? The children deliberately chose to live on their own while they could have returned to their aunt - who, despite treating them unfairly, was still feeding them.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by inopinatus on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:42PM (#14109193)
This remark is so brutally inhumane, so utterly disregarding of human behaviour and lacking in any sympathy or feeling for the most vulnerable that I wish Hacker News had a "block user" button.

Maybe I can use custom CSS.

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