Definitely worth watching, and I assume that the portrait of life immediately after a nuclear war is reasonably accurate. The depiction of the local bureaucracy, holed up in a fallout shelter attempting to follow their procedures which are now completely pointless especially rang true.
The problems, though, are in the later scenes with the depictions of the post-bomb generation. I can understand that the adults, with all the horror they've experienced, would be largely reduced to zombies, but why are their kids like that? They've known no other world. I realize life is hard, but kids will always laugh and play. A scene in a sort-of classroom has the children all sitting staring at the TV, not making noise or jostling each other, which is harder to swallow than any of the depictions of death and destruction. These kids never smile.
And why can't they talk? Did they all get the exact same kind of brain damage? The filmmakers seem to think that children without education won't learn how to talk, but this is nonsense. They wouldn't be able to *read*, it's true, but speech is innate. There are plenty of pre-literate cultures, but nobody has ever run across a pre-*verbal* culture. In making the depiction as hellish as possible, they have lost all common sense.
The problems, though, are in the later scenes with the depictions of the post-bomb generation. I can understand that the adults, with all the horror they've experienced, would be largely reduced to zombies, but why are their kids like that? They've known no other world. I realize life is hard, but kids will always laugh and play. A scene in a sort-of classroom has the children all sitting staring at the TV, not making noise or jostling each other, which is harder to swallow than any of the depictions of death and destruction. These kids never smile.
And why can't they talk? Did they all get the exact same kind of brain damage? The filmmakers seem to think that children without education won't learn how to talk, but this is nonsense. They wouldn't be able to *read*, it's true, but speech is innate. There are plenty of pre-literate cultures, but nobody has ever run across a pre-*verbal* culture. In making the depiction as hellish as possible, they have lost all common sense.