The Darkest Movie You Haven’t Seen

One thing that just stuck with me was how they had a cellar. Its horrifying to know they could've had a chance to survive.

One scene worth mentioning is when Jim and Hilda smell what they think is roasted meat and Hilda assumes that it's coming from people having dinner in their homes...while the camera pans over what vaguely resemble the skeletal remains of a dog and a person, before transitioning to the wreckage of a small city, where the camera stops on a melted teddy bear.

That moment when Hilda says "should we have used the cellar, dear?" just made my jaw drop and I nearly pulled my own hair out, mentally screaming "noooooo you poor, silly couple!"

"The cake will be burnt", is such a realistic disassociation that people engage in. Worrying about something small instead of the actual traumatic event you're dealing with. Like once one of my pet rats I was very close to had died, and I buried him, and that night it rained, and I started crying because I was thinking "he's out there cold and alone in the rain, my poor baby." He was dead.. he couldn't feel anything, but it was easier for my brain to obsess over the cold and rain and not the fact that he was completely gone forever, something that I was still having trouble processing.

When Jim yells “Come back you stupid bitch and get in the shelter!” that’s meant to shock you in purpose. It also serves as a tone shift for the movie, changing from this calm and casual day for Jim and Hilda, to something that will shock you and possibly have you covering your mouth, which is what I did when Jim said those 10 words.

It's amazing how a bunch of old men that I didn't vote for could ruin and destroy everything and everyone I know and love by signing a piece of paper.

The paper bags is one of the best foreshadowings I’ve seen. It’s something subtle, something you wouldn’t notice at first, but realize later on. This movie really captures the real situation, and does it so good.

I think the distorted comic panels after the blast are meant to resemble a photo of a woman who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, where the pattern of her kimono was burned into her skin. Horrifying stuff. I don't know if the comic did this but in the film Jim actually brings this exact example up whilst he's preparing for the war

Its horrifying because the couples personalities have traits that most peoples grandparents have. They also dress the same as a lot of our grandparents. Its hard to watch this and not think of your grandparents in this scenario, clueless, patriotic, and happy despite the most sinister thing imaginable happening to them. I won't forget this for a while.

I think there's definitely a point where Jim realizes that they're a lot worse off than he lets on. The fact that they bring up the ID's again after getting in the potato sacks is pretty clear proof to me that they know they're dying, and have understood the true purpose of the bags.

It kills me knowing that these people could've survived if they had just thought on their own accord instead of listening to the manual. They had everything they needed, food, water, shelter, they could've lived, and likely would've.

I feel as if the husband forgetting and messing up with the shelter, and the water... Might simply be human error. I'm not even in my 30's, but I've messed up and forgotten things my entire life. The sudden realization of rainwater, afterall your water supplies are destroyed and contaminated, makes perfect sense and like salvation, in the moment. You get happy at any bit of hope; You forget, don't realize, or simply don't know that hope is actually the nails in your coffin

The music starting to pick up when Ducks realised her hair is falling out really hurts because it seems to be the point of where they both realise "oh.. we're not surviving are we" But at the same time both of them try to stay positive for each other as If to not scare the other partner which is both sweet and depressimg as fuck

Him not remembering what the bag was for and them coming back to them at the end is one of the most powerful pieces of media ive ever seen.

This film left me completely devastated when I watched it years ago, "The cake will be burnt!" still sticks to me years later.

He very clearly knows the reality of their situation, and he demonstrates this knowledge over and over. But the most damning evidence of this is when he panics while trying to get her to go into their "shelter", saying "Come back you stupid b** and get in the shelter!". This clearly demonstrates that he had an understanding of the gravity of the situation (in the movie, at least).

Looking at the image of Jim singing “smile” while slowly dying is so haunting and strangely beautiful with how hopeful he is, it’s enough to make me wanna cry. I think the bags becoming realistic is very interesting. I see it as not just reality setting in, but also the idea that they are becoming apart of the background, as if just another miscellaneous object destroyed in the blast.

When the wind blows is technically a sequel to the graphic novel Gentleman Jim. It stars the same couple but younger. Jim is a toilet cleaner dissatisfied with his position in life, so he dreams up a more exciting life. All his attempts at chasing his passions end up backfiring, and he learns to be happy with what he has. This story certainly recontextualizes that ending.

There’s an Iron Maiden song “When the Wild Wind Blows” closely based on this, but the bomb doesn’t go off, an earthquake happens but the couple assume it was the bomb and take poison. Fun fact- their song the Trooper is actually about the charge of the light brigade mentioned at the end of this video

I stopped the video a few minutes in to seek out the movie. I felt such dread when they started happily collecting rain water and drinking it. All those pamphlets did was tell them how to build a shelter, but it didn't educate them on anything after. They could have collected food and water sooner, they could have hidden in the cellar, they could have prepared better.... but they weren't properly taught, and they had to watch each other waste away. And the way they so casually went outside of their shelter.... made me wonder if they were already suffering side-effects and couldn't think properly.