Like it’s a few days later and I’m still lowkey feeling
It’s a pretty cool film, like the basic object is to convey how the way our economy functions we are all very highly interdependent not just on each other, but on crop yields, gasoline, sunshine, temperature, fixed capital etc, and a real nuclear attack has a powerful potential to
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just knock us all back into the feudal era very quickly, but also living with radiation.
Honestly it felt kind of Marxist in the detailed way it took seriously the threat to a developed economy.
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But the attack comes early in the film so we sit with the humans all suffering in unique ways from the consequences for quite a while,
and the deep level of sorrow I felt for the characters was kind of similar to how I felt the next few days after watching Skinamarink (but less so). I find myself just flashing back to the daughter’s expression in the last scene, jeez.
