What happens them after the film?
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*cries*
They die.
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Emergency services shows up and cures their radiation exposure and they both have a nice cup of tea. What else could've happened?
Or maybe Jim and Hilda got all Road Warrior style and started cruising the wasteland in a suped up Interceptor? :D
i aint seen it for years, but as i remember, they die but they dont know it, so they carry on as normal, i could be wrong
shareiv been watching it at school and im sure they die. They were lying in the paper bags and were very ill so i think thats what happened last. i thought it was really sad!
shareyes they do die, i have just watched it in school, and i have decided to see whaqt other people think of the movie. they die, but the last time we see them praying and cant remember what is the prayer is. then we see a cloud which is a picture of them in the shelter floating to the sky, which means they are going to heaven
shareThe definatly, the end is to symbolise how they think that sitting in a paper bag and painting windows white will help them survive a nuclear attack. They do die.
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Worse than not remembering the prayer (or better artistically) Jim mixes "The Lords Prayer" with Tennysons "Charge of the Light Brigade", a poem about a failed and fumbled attack in, if memory serves, the Crimean War. If you saw this in school they should have mentioned this (ping your teacher about it). It's easier to catch the words in the book. One of the first, and to this day finest graphic novels I've read.
shareThanks for that little bit of information it really gives a little more to the ending now. A failed attack how very true.
shareLike the repetition of something like "It's not to reason why / It's but to do and die."
Only when I've typed that out, did I realise its full relevance to the film as a whole.
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yeah, i agree. seemed pretty obvious that was what happened. i think i would have liked to know what happened to the other people too. (like the ones they kept in touch with.) if they had been in shelter too, and so on.
too much steel, to many codes,
too many demands and rules, too polished and cold,
maybe it's time to put this into reverse,
noone got time for noone, everyone is climbing their career,
is quality here, or does quality dissappear,
don't give me more steel, don't give me more codes,
no more answering machines, and don't put me on hold,
don't cover the world with steel,
remove the suits and machines,
may common sense be heard,
revolt against this technolic built up world,
and put this in reverse.
I saw this movie only once, over 20 years ago and I still feel sad every time I remember it.
share"Jim and Hilda got all Road Warrior style and started cruising the wasteland in a suped up Interceptor?"
HAHAHAHAHAHA
The couple, having followed the pamphlet's instructions to the letter, right down to dressing themselves in bags, dies, having readied themselves for easy disposal by government cleanup crews.
Sadly they die, which I didnt get at first. I actually cried at the end. When the credits came on, I said to mum 'well what happened' and she said 'they died' and I said 'so thew services didnt come?' so I bawled. :(
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They eat crumpets as the powers-to be save them.... Hah they die.
Judging from the speed at which they develop symptoms, they would have recieved a radiation dose several times over lethal dose, probably at least 1000 rem. They would die due to infection or internal bleeding. Just goes to show - dont drink rainwater after a nuclear blast!
shareI'm afraid it's true! They couldn't have survived and I doubt even if they had remained in a shelter consisting of three doors propped up against a wall with one end completely exposed that they could have survived either.
It's the most ludicrous form of shelter known to man and designed only to help protect you from the blast. There after, if you are unfortunate enough to survive that, you're on yer own! You can't store all that stuff inside that the govenmental directive suggests and anything you leave outside will be contaminated or broken.
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They would have died whether or not they drank the rain water since they were already infected with the radiation during the blast, as well as been exposed to the radiation that stayed in the air.
The water would cause an even earlier death, but than again so would dehydration
I think the ending is ambigious but they probably have to much longer to live.
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They enjoy the warm internal glow from 500 rads fallout carried on prevailing winds from the vaporised Devonport dockyards.
Both feel rough for a few days then better for a few days, after the end of the second week their kidneys and livers begin to fail.
In three weeks they die, there is no help because they are too old to do any useful work and are doomed anyway.
Its a sunny world we have made for ourselves is it not?
Enjoy it while it lasts
Don't worry. The world would survive a total nuclear war totalbollacks....just probably not the people on it.
shareIn three weeks they die, there is no help because they are too old to do any useful work and are doomed anyway.
More likely theres no help because all the help is dead too, everything extinct practically
Enjoy it while it lasts? You pretentious prick.
shareThe end is the end. It's as simple as that. I always cry through the whole end of the film, usually from the moment with the rat in the toilet.
shareSorry, but they died. I thought it was pretty obvious.
It shows them like amidst the clouds and the prayer he is saying says something along the lines of "walking in the valley of death" or something. Can't remember exactly.
The radiation kills them. In the sequal which was never produced or even really thought except in my mind they come back to life as radioactive empowered zombies and go and seek revenge on the publishers of the government phamphlets that killed them ;).
sharethey died in their own body bags
shareYes, they died in the end. I thought that the placard at the end of the film, dedicating it to the children who had just been born was very powerful. They were only little children when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, there's new threats, but the threat of a Nuclear Holocaust has sort of disappeared.
share"Now, there's new threats, but the threat of a Nuclear Holocaust has sort of disappeared".
Not to spoil anybodies day but the plutonium pits and the missiles and bombs to deliver them are still there. Less of them of course but enough to vapourise any city of any note in any country.
Enjoy it while it lasts