The Day After gives a slice of 80 Americana of Missouri, and Kansas, with families, doctors, workers, and military. During the everyday life the viewer is given the en pending attacks in Europe by news alerts of the Warsaw pack armies attacking West Germany. West Germany is falling and World War Three is escalating. The viewer develops a character rapport with The Day After characters as the Third World War un folds. The nuclear attack and after effects are quite bleak, but a made for T V version tone down the gore for T V audiences. What bothers me the most is not the nuclear attack but the after effects of the bomb for The Day After. The church scene, the roch scene, radiation poisonings of the characters, and the ending of the doctor coming home is depressing, nihilism of nuclear war make one feel no one would past 3 years from the fall out! Effective movie, but hard to stomach! 7 stars.
Review of The Day After
