My friend just told me she had seen this movie and that it was very sad. I feel sad just reading about it! In the movie..do you get the impression that EVERYONE else in the country has already died?
shareAs I said in another Thread, every Government should be made to watch this Film. Putin and Bush could do with a good education.
shareHi. When one of the couple says something about the smell of roast meat, it is to be assumed that it is the smell of the dead humans, having been burnt by the bomb. So, yes, everyone has died.
shareNo. The location of the cottage was within the South Downs between Brighton and Lewes, and the smell of burning that reached them was from the nearest target city (Brighton)on a south westerly prevailing wind. A nuclear attack on the UK at the time would NOT have killed the entire UK population of some 60 millon people, but would've (with subsequent radiation deaths) reduced the population to what it was in the middle ages.
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"Everbody in the WORLD, is bent"share
I was generalising: when I said everyone, i meant in their vacinity.
shareThere seems to be many implicatons that everyone has died (as in the scene when they first venture outdoors, and when they try the tv and radio and utter, "all dead"). But it never made it explicitly clear that they are the only survivors. Wouldn't make sense anyway, because there would surely be many other people who live in rural areas a safe distance away from ground zero--or the "epi/hypothing".
shareRadio and TV being out isn't an indication of a death toll. The bomb would produce and EMP. THat would likely knock out most stations/ relay stations.
shareThere seems to be many implicatons that everyone has died (as in the scene when they first venture outdoors, and when they try the tv and radio and utter, "all dead"). But it never made it explicitly clear that they are the only survivors. Wouldn't make sense anyway, because there would surely be many other people who live in rural areas a safe distance away from ground zero--or the "epi/hypothing".
they wouldn't be 'survivors' as it were, I don't think. More likely they would be the unlucky ones to survive a Bomb only to waste away afterwards, a very messy and painful death.
The people in London and the surrounding counties would all die.
shareI think one of the major points of the film, and the book that preceded it, is that numbers are irrelevant. The book was written at a time when there was much debate about the precise numbers who would die in a nuclear holocaust (as indeed it is not clear today), witness Jim talking about "millions" of people killed at one point in the film without any emotion whatsoever. The numbers are irrelevant. Nuclear war, or any nuclear detonation, would be a tragedy. That's the bottom line, and rather than having bean-counters try to calculate the precise nature of it, surely every effort should be put into making sure it never happens?
Stalin's chilling quote about "one death being a tragedy, but a million a statistic" has a tragic profoundness to it. Only when you are removed from the academic discussions about "megatons" and "epicentres" that Jim waffles on about, and bring it down to the ground level of the lives instantaneously snuffed out do you get any real idea of what nuclear war would be like, and why it must never be allowed to take place.