There’s also a super-medicated mother type. In addition to this guy, the first mom who was killed was a women’s libber, independent type. One of the first couples is the “mega-vain-yuppies,” represented here buy a guy who lifts weights, and his topless wife. Hopefully the gas didn’t also give the kids the ability to write bad poetry and take shitty black and white photographs of nature.Īs the sheriff goes around to the various parents in an attempt to locate the missing children, the director attempts a lampooning of the various parent-types of the 80s. The nuclear gas gave the children black fingernails like goth kids. She hugs her newly radioactive child and is instantly burned to a crisp. She looks in the cemetery, finds the dead bus driver, and finds her child. Then a mother shows up looking for her child. He calls some people they all act confused. Two lazy american workers don’t finish their job properly and instead decide to go “have a beer.” As a result, a toxic gas is released right as a school bus drives by and a few minutes later the sheriff arrives and finds the bus empty. A coal power plant is not a nuclear power plant. You know what it looks like? That’s right, a coal power plant. Secondly, the building in the background is not even close to a nuclear power plant. First off, “Nuclear Generating Area”? What does that even mean? It’s like someone who didn’t understand the English language or how a nuclear power plant works made up some verbiage for a sign. The Children opens with the scene pictured below. The Children is about a group of children who are exposed to a toxic gas from a nuclear power plant, after which they become killers.
When I have to watch nuclear scare movies, I get a little touchy.
It was active all throughout my childhood. Summary: In Zion Illinois we had a nuclear power plant. Of course this is a bit of an absurd take on the issue, but it no doubt stemmed from those concerns. This was an oft-debated issue in the 80s and the hysteria surrounding much of it was because of paranoia spread by movies like this. Social Context: Made at the height of nuclear scare films, The Children makes an effort to scare people about nuclear power plants in their backyard.
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The Children is unique in the respect that it is more of a horror movie rather than a survivalist/post-apocalyptic thing.īest Line: “Did you kill that kid you shot at?” In general this movie capitalizes on the nuclear hysteria of the early 80s. Interesting Dated References: Nuclear waste deforming our children.
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