So you know when you go into a film and you're expecting it to be sad and then you're still overwhelmed by the thing anyways.
That's what I got here.
This poor middle class aging British family living throw the absolute whores of nuclear Armageddon and slowly dying from radiation sickness that they can't even comprehend.
The worst part is there's nothing they could have done to prevent this.
It's not like they could have prepped better or followed better directions. Or even had the luxury of knowing in hindsight that a bomb was going to fall so they could leave their respective area.
These people were screwed from the onset and they go into it with as much determination and good spirit as you could expect an average person to do.
Now it's argued by some that this movie is a little forced.
It uses musical cues and animation techniques to purposely make you feel more miserable than what the scenes of probably allow.
But you know it still works like a hot damn on someone like me.
I've always been a sucker for Atomic Revelation stories and this one just hits every mark.
It even had me going along with the fantasy for a Time.
The first time you see these two exit their little makeshift bunker I was there thinking. ''no! Don't leave the bunker! (which was made of a couple of doors nailed to the side of a wall) you have to stay in there to stay safe.''
Before that little part of my brain set in and said; Wait? There's no safety. What the hell are a couple of wooden doors and throw pillows going to do to scorching temperatures and atomic Fallout! That has no insulation or filtered breeding environment.''
You just stuck watching these silly but relatively decent people slowly suffer, gradually fall victims to both naïvety and possibly even disillusionment.
They're walking around the remnants of their Garden towards the middle of the movie where everything is been scorched and destroyed.
The husband wants to pick a cabbage to have for dinner and of course he know there's nothing out there. They're walking around claiming that everything is a bit dry and wilted up.
At this point I'm not entirely sure if they've completely broken down or are trying their best to deny reality for their own sanity or if the fallout is just eating away at their mental capacity and making them unable to comprehend their own environment.
Either way it's just disheartening.
The animation on the two people has this really Charming family youth aesthetic to it. That contradicts with the Grimm environment they have to survive in.
Coupled with the animation done over real life objects to give there animation an unnatural look. It makes for a surprisingly immersive environment.
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