Category Archives: Yetna

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Posted by Testament (1983) on

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General

  • No special effect
  • Simple plot
  • Not for entertainment
  • Haunting as a story

Comments on Shapiro’s criticisms

  • “Post-nuclear feminist weepie” –> hostile toward women
  • Movie celebrates the “meaninglessness of her life” –> it’s hard to be radical when in crisis

Documentaries – Influence on viewers and cast members

  • Film shown in a classroom (Nuclear thoughts)
  • Students share their thoughts
  • Lukas Hass (Scott) wrote to president against nuclear weapons (Twenty years later)
  • Jane Alexander active for nuclear disarmament

Take home message

  • Anti-war, anti-nuclear
  • Carol holds on to life -> hope in each of her child keeps her alive
  • Happy family in the beginning – destroyed -> Life is precious, take nothing for granted