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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 411146" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Threads</span></strong> (1984)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F_soXI82GSn1A%2FTNV6dtthBEI%2FAAAAAAAAC80%2FKvOCkskBQSY%2Fs1600%2FThreadsRadioTimescover.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=4e058264763bfea43e068b18856a00573e814690260ac93806ccf914dfc99c1e&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 690px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">It's easy to understand why this film has been invisible to me. Despite garnering no less than four BAFTAs (it was nominated for seven) it's only been shown on television a handful of times, one of which was the night before last to mark its fortieth anniversary. I stumbled across it on iPlayer last night.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">As it got underway I could see it being a somewhat nostalgic look back at a vision of a calamity through the prism of Eighties Britain. This was reinforced by the opening act, which presented as a modest kitchen sink drama about a young Sheffield couple's unplanned pregnancy and the ensuing uncomfortable introductions between their parents. Like our soaps, it's a story about "us": just regular people dealing with life's daily challenges. Which sells the reality of what follows.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Tonally, the film evolves into echoing those scary public information films of the era in which kids were abducted, electrocuted for playing near live wires or sliced in half by trains. The premise here gives scope for this matter-of-fact everyday horror to be taken to extremes. And it is.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Even though I had an idea about the premise of the film I just wasn't ready for what came next. There is no preparing for this. Words that came to mind as I watched included: grim; powerful; bleak; shocking; horrifying... Some of the imagery is truly disturbing and gets into the soul and the psyche. But what makes it most disturbing is how real and feasible it feels. Sadly, as much today as forty years ago.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I'll say no more, because this piece is not just a film... it's an experience that needs to be undertaken, beginning to end.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">There are very few films that truly haunt me. This, I feel quite sure, will be one of them.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I'll sign off with the original 1984 introduction to the piece, from a time when television presenters still spoke properly and authoritatively:</p> <p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]J1q-F9pE2q0[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 411146, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Threads[/SIZE][/B] (1984) [IMG width="690px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F_soXI82GSn1A%2FTNV6dtthBEI%2FAAAAAAAAC80%2FKvOCkskBQSY%2Fs1600%2FThreadsRadioTimescover.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=4e058264763bfea43e068b18856a00573e814690260ac93806ccf914dfc99c1e&ipo=images[/IMG] It's easy to understand why this film has been invisible to me. Despite garnering no less than four BAFTAs (it was nominated for seven) it's only been shown on television a handful of times, one of which was the night before last to mark its fortieth anniversary. I stumbled across it on iPlayer last night. As it got underway I could see it being a somewhat nostalgic look back at a vision of a calamity through the prism of Eighties Britain. This was reinforced by the opening act, which presented as a modest kitchen sink drama about a young Sheffield couple's unplanned pregnancy and the ensuing uncomfortable introductions between their parents. Like our soaps, it's a story about "us": just regular people dealing with life's daily challenges. Which sells the reality of what follows. Tonally, the film evolves into echoing those scary public information films of the era in which kids were abducted, electrocuted for playing near live wires or sliced in half by trains. The premise here gives scope for this matter-of-fact everyday horror to be taken to extremes. And it is. Even though I had an idea about the premise of the film I just wasn't ready for what came next. There is no preparing for this. Words that came to mind as I watched included: grim; powerful; bleak; shocking; horrifying... Some of the imagery is truly disturbing and gets into the soul and the psyche. But what makes it most disturbing is how real and feasible it feels. Sadly, as much today as forty years ago. I'll say no more, because this piece is not just a film... it's an experience that needs to be undertaken, beginning to end. There are very few films that truly haunt me. This, I feel quite sure, will be one of them. I'll sign off with the original 1984 introduction to the piece, from a time when television presenters still spoke properly and authoritatively: [MEDIA=youtube]J1q-F9pE2q0[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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