Irishchatter I honestly was thinking that the old couple were going to make it through the radiation but, it seemed like the died when they were covering themselves with potato stacks. It really broke my heart, I wouldn't imagine my grandparents going through this, I honestly wonder if someone found them? They seemed to be really too late to save them, I honestly wish Briggs wrote about more of the ending. I even wanted to see if their son and his wife were alive or not? My head is spinning with questions here, how were they found? I think this will haunt me for a while, I've never had a movie giving me such haunting thoughts. It just looked so realistic even if it was just a fictional cartoon. This really makes you think that we certainly do live in a world full of hate! RIP David Bowie for being involved in the soundtrack of this film <3

The_Film_Cricket I was like a lot of people. I saw 'When the Wind Blows' and I really didn't know anything about it. I saw that one of the voices was provided by Peggy Ashcroft ('A Passage to India' is one of my favorite movies) and was drawn to it.What struck me first was the drawing style. It looks like a children's storybook. It is sort of fitting that this movie looks like a fairy tale because it's story is anything but.The movie takes place in the home of an elderly couple John and Hilda who know that WWIII is emminent but think that the government will have the same jolly, let's-all-pitch-in spirit of WWII. The first half is the two of them preparing for war. They have pamphlets on how to set up a bomb shelter but are totally unprepared for the impact of nuclear weapons.When the bomb hits, the second half deals with their slow realization that the government isn't going to help and the harsher realization that they are slowly dying.The movie is chilling because it looks so sweet. These two lovely people are so naïve, they have no idea what will or has happened to them.The movie is patently for adults. Animated films for adults don't do well and don't get a wide distribution because of the false assumption that all animated films are for children. 'When the Wind Blows' is a disturbing film about a disturbing subject. It puts together two things that seem to be on opposite ends of the spectrum, and animated film and a dark social message.Because these two themes mesh together so well, the movie leaves you breathless and in deep discussion afterwards.

Rectangular_businessman "When the Wind Blows", just like "Grave of the Fireflies" it's a heartbreaking animated tale about two innocent characters that had a childish vision of the world, and how the war has terrible effect on their lives.Despite the cute style of animation, that may look as something aimed for children, this movie is pretty disturbing and sad: The scenes aren't very explicit, but many parts of this movie shocked me a lot. However, I love this film, and I would recommend it to anyone (Unless you don't like to see sad movies) because, despite being pretty depressive and dark, it is also beautiful and moving. "When the Wind Blows" is one of the most intense, powerful and poetic films (animated or not) ever made. If you liked films as "Watership Down" "The Plague Dogs" and "Grave of the Fireflies" you couldn't miss this movie.

Ali Catterall You'd think today's kids would have some measure of respect for their own mortality - so why do they apparently remain so fearless? Well, unlike the 1970s and 1980s generation, they aren't continually being scared stiff.Consider the evidence: scary kids' telly with scary theme tunes; the potential for drowning in a pre-Thames Barrier London; the daily possibility of being blown to bits by the IRA; icebergs with the voice of John Hurt giving us Aids; heroin screwing us up (or at least giving us unsightly acne). And the granddaddy of all bogeymen: da bomb.Permeating all aspects of pop culture, from 'Two Tribes' to Threads, the ridiculously real threat of nuclear annihilation gave us all the screaming abdabs - not helped by Jimmy T Murakami's adaptation of Briggs' graphic novel 'When The Wind Blows', a darkly satirical riposte to those fatuous 'Protect And Survive' leaflets (and an exact photo negative of Disney's 1957 propaganda cartoon Our Friend The Atom).For Jim and Hilda Bloggs, taking a few doors off their hinges and climbing into a brown paper bag should be enough to ensure their post-holocaust survival. After all, the government wouldn't lie to us. Would they?