Ive always liked this movie.
Probably because when I was a very small child, bomb shelters were very much part of family conversations. I remember my dad having pamphlets on them.
We had a place in our basement we were to go.
Elementary schools had bomb shelters and bomb drills, not for tornadoes.
Why? Because bombs were more likely.
Air raid sirens were tested periodically and while streets of active peoples would freeze and wonder if this was it.
In modern audiences, this overall feeling or mood would be lost.
When this movie was being made Kennedy was still alive.
Think about the impact socially when this was watched AFTER Nov.
The overall scandal and near miss of the Cuban missile crisis was actually still quite vague to the masses and in many ways repressed still in 1962, so this movie actually kept ahead of current events.
The overall behavior of people in this movie was probably on point for 1962.
Tame by today's standards, yet in the end there was referenced lawlessness and even rape innuendos as looters carried off the helpless wife.
The rugged rather dim cop, just mindlessly plugging along like a soldier ant was perfectly cast and actually well represented of cops of that day.
No offense, but many were barely educated, war vets who spoke infrequently, didn't explain anything, and would clobber you in a second.
Not to mention deal with a lap dog that would need rations as well.
To me the greatest part of the overall movie was just the comedy of left over duck n cover ideology, in an era where thermonuclear bombs had increased in power by factors of tens of thousands.
The old man had it right.
Probably because when I was a very small child, bomb shelters were very much part of family conversations. I remember my dad having pamphlets on them.
We had a place in our basement we were to go.
Elementary schools had bomb shelters and bomb drills, not for tornadoes.
Why? Because bombs were more likely.
Air raid sirens were tested periodically and while streets of active peoples would freeze and wonder if this was it.
In modern audiences, this overall feeling or mood would be lost.
When this movie was being made Kennedy was still alive.
Think about the impact socially when this was watched AFTER Nov.
The overall scandal and near miss of the Cuban missile crisis was actually still quite vague to the masses and in many ways repressed still in 1962, so this movie actually kept ahead of current events.
The overall behavior of people in this movie was probably on point for 1962.
Tame by today's standards, yet in the end there was referenced lawlessness and even rape innuendos as looters carried off the helpless wife.
The rugged rather dim cop, just mindlessly plugging along like a soldier ant was perfectly cast and actually well represented of cops of that day.
No offense, but many were barely educated, war vets who spoke infrequently, didn't explain anything, and would clobber you in a second.
Not to mention deal with a lap dog that would need rations as well.
To me the greatest part of the overall movie was just the comedy of left over duck n cover ideology, in an era where thermonuclear bombs had increased in power by factors of tens of thousands.
The old man had it right.
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