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Review 1DiscussionA review by Gimly
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Written by Gimly on Sun Apr 05 2020
Great, genuinely hard to watch, eminently memorable and absolutely no fun at all. But that's really important I think, so much media really tries to sort of paint this candy-coated filter over subjects like war, when in reality, war, especially nuclear war, is pretty fucked. There's nothing wrong with making those other movies, the ones where the heroes win the day and good guys triumph, those will never go away, nor should they, but every now and then, some hard truths need to be confronted too, and _The War Game_ is **very** confronting.
_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally rec...
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- nuclear war
- cold war
- nuclear radiation
- nuclear missile
- state of emergency
- riot
- survival
- nuclear holocaust
- nuclear bomb
- docudrama
- struggle for survival
- nuclear weapons
- fake documentary
- mondo
- firestorm
- war
- pseudo-documentary
- docufiction
- cold war era
- tactical nuclear warfare
- nuclear deterrent policy
- nuclear holocaust fiction
- survival film
- fallout shelters
- civil defence
- mondo film
- voice-over
- panic buying
- nuclear strikes
- hunger riots
- armed police
- v bombers
- countervalue
- vulcan mk ii
- nuclear war aftermath
- deterrence theory