{"id":26,"date":"2004-05-02T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2004\/05\/02\/threads-again\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T13:37:42","slug":"threads-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/threads-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads again"},"content":{"rendered":"
I finally got around to watching my Threads<\/a> DVD last night. I really can hardly believe I watched it as a kid – it was so much more disturbing that I remembered, and very graphic. It’s one of those films that needs to be watched once – like Schindler’s List<\/a> – as it has such an important message, but it’s definitely not something you would watch again and again.
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\nIt’s hard to believe now that during the early 1980s the Government was selling leaflets<\/a> on how to ‘Protect and Survive’ in the event of a nuclear attack. Even though we constantly face the threat of terrorism in this country – and have done for a very long time – it doesn’t feel as scary as the possibility of a nuclear war.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, as Threads was made in 1984 it was great to see something that I had completely forgotten about – the arm that used to be at the end of supermarket checkouts to separate different sets of shopping! I’ve captured an image from the DVD here.
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When did these disappear? Why did they go? I guess it’s just a sign of these super-fast times that checkouts now don’t let you take very long over bagging up your shopping.<\/p>\n

There was also a quick glimpse of some graffiti on the DVD that reminded me of something I saw in North Finchley during a snowy day in 2002.<\/p>\n

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I finally got around to watching my Threads DVD last night. I really can hardly believe I watched it as a kid – it was so much more disturbing that I remembered, and very graphic. It’s one of those films that needs to be watched once – like Schindler’s List – as it has such […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/14\/threads\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":0},"title":"Threads","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"14 April 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Many years ago, I stayed up watching TV slightly later than usual with mum and dad and happened to see Threads. 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