Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest that I so much believe in-could it really be something else?" Many laymen, baffled by the scientists anyway, might find the overthrow of all their lore quite entertaining. But most scientists insist that their laws are universal; even the motion of distant stars and the nuclear reactions within them appear to obey the laws of terrestrial science...
...Game predicts what might happen in Britain during a nuclear war. Filmed in a small English village, it juxtaposes pictures of people being evacuated, people vainly trying to protect their children by pushing them under tables, people being burned--with reassuring comments by political and religious leaders and scientists...
...growing number of pacifist films. And it ranks with the best of them. Like Resnais' Night and Fog it uses documentary-like, rough-grained footage as well as rapid cutting between past, present and future. We see a real statement from a church council supporting nuclear war. Then a close-up of the terrified face of a nurse saying, Their bodies are just falling apart. A young couple carrying their son, who has been blinded by the glare. A "firestorm"--blasts of wind so fierce that they crush the firemen and their equipment. Watkins says that nuclear war is unthinkable...
...Game is more than just an effective anti-war movie. I suspect that one reason it provoked such criticism is that it is really about the type of society which would play the game. The type of society which may destroy itself completely in a nuclear war--but is destroying itself in so many ways every day. For example, the film highlighted British race prejudice at a time when the English were congratulating themselves on having avoided completely the Americans' dilemma. A policeman asks a middle-aged, middle-class house-wife to house people who have been evacuated...
...highest tribute to this film is that it discourages such criticism by the overwhelming importance of this film. The heat of the film melts all the classic doubts of the liberal intellectual about war and peace and activism. The War Game shocks you into realizing that the dangers of nuclear war obviate petty quibbles. It asks which side you are on. And you find yourself on the side of peace, peace more important than ideologies. And you feel tired and sick to your stomach, but you feel grateful to Watkins for being on this side and making this film...