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When the Wind Blows
Animation, Drama, War
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value emotionally devastating antiwar animation that contrasts ordinary domestic tenderness with the incomprehensible consequences of modern warfare.
- Tone
- bleak, melancholic, sentimental
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- nuclear war, aging, marital devotion, institutional failure, loss of innocence
- Setting
- late twentieth-century nuclear crisis, isolated rural house and improvised shelter
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