If you haven't seen it, I suspect Conspiracy would be right up your street.
It's a dramatisation of the Wannsee conference, a bureaucratic meeting in pleasant surroundings where some high-ranking German officials are calmly and inexorably guided to the notion that the logical course of action is, well, The Final Solution.
It's *horrible*. And yet so *banal*.
It's in the opening monologue.
Ahhhhh right that makes sense. Also fits with one of the last scenes in the movie when you see the kids breaking down fabric to create loose threads.
Me too. I grew up in the 80s with all the weird media around it, in the full knowledge that in the event of WWIII, the south-east of the U.K. where I lived would no longer exist shortly after it started.
I think the idea is that the UK is so centralised and small that there is no chance of rebuilding. There is no organised education and nobody around to raise kids, when all remaining adults have to work long manual labour shifts to get even half the calories they need, the lack of sunlight, electricity and people along with radiation sickness making everything a hundred times harder. Every adult that survived, even if they aren't sick or struggling to survive along with caring for others, is in shock for the rest of their lives at the brutal destruction of their past lives and likely almost everyone and everything they loved. Life is hard, short, dark and painful, and that distancing makes the next generation live under different rules.
I think there's a kind of empathetic dread to it. Watching it hangs a sword of Damocles over one's mind, and wanting others to experience it to helps relieve some of that stressful despair. We can be stressed out together
But it's worth it, these days there are less wars and more genocides enabled by MAD. What's not to love?
Entirely because of a delusion that the threat only existed because of the Soviet Union. This despite the closest we've ever come to total thermonuclear war being after the end of the Cold War.
Fewer wars and genocides among the major powers, that is. And it took a long while to get there; the latter half of the 20th century was still pretty bloodstained compared to the first half if you subtract the two biggest contributors (then again, there were more people to die anyway). Heck, the 20th century ended the way it started: with some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. I feel more people don't talk about the Yugoslav Wars or Bosnian genocide considering it was happening in the middle of the Millennial Mecca known as the 1990s. I've even angsted about this before, that all those Buzzfeed clickbait articles that talk about "how the 90s actually sucked" only ever talk about irrelevant middle-class American shit with Kurt Cobain and Tupac thrown in and never things like, you know, Srebrenica or Rwanda or the Second Congo War.
You'll notice the adults still speak normally. It's because,
