United Artists
Directed by Richard Lester
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Absurdist comedy-drama set in a post-nuclear London. The raison d'être is revealed towards the end of the film: being "British" they must "carry on". And carry on they do, from every day activities such as riding the subway and watching television, to basic human activities like having babies and family relationships. However, these activities are filtered through the devastating consequences of nuclear war. It's set in a bleak landscape resembling a toxic landfill. Colors are often filtered through orange or puke-green lenses, giving the sky and water a sickly hue. The technique is taken to the extreme: people become inanimate objects, one person becomes a parrot and is then eaten, shrewdly implying cannibalism. It is more or less plot-less, which hurts its watchability, and some of the British culture references went over my head, but otherwise a sobering reminder of the nuclear threat which still persists today.
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