'The War Game'

I like the people call this a "pseudo-documentary." Know what else is a "pseudo-documentary"? Jurassic Park. Birds. Titanic. Les Vampires. Night of the Living Dead. Halloween.

Categorizing something as a documentary is a cut-and-dry proposition. A "pseudo-documentary" is called a film. It's a drama, war movie, comedy or romance. The Office isn't a "pseudo-documentary." It's a sitcom.

Despite the inaccurate classification, it is still a very interesting and thought provoking film. It is done in a documentary-style, supposing some kind of nuclear attack between the United States and Russia somehow hit England. The film captures the aftermath. Kind of a pseudo-political rant against nuclear war.

I think people that are against nuclear war are funny. No one is for nuclear war. People know what's going to happen should it happen. We know the fallout. Maybe the generalization amongst most is that they don't realize the after effects of a nuclear bomb dropping. They do. But what exactly are we supposed to do about it. Protest all you want. If Russia wanted to drop one on Miami or New York, there wasn't too much anybody could really do about it.

There's craploads we don't have any control over and even more that we don't fret over on any given day. A "pseudo-documentary" doesn't really change any of that. But it can try.