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If Threads had been set in the 1950s, with a bit of Fan Wank, you could even postulate that it's kind of a Spiritual Licensee Prequel to Orwell's 1984 ! An anarchic totalitarian police state ruling over a crippled, declining Britain after a hinted-at nuclear war, anyone ? The novel's descriptions of London and the state of society in Oceania are eerily similar to the movie's scenes set years after the war.

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  • If Threads had been set in the 1950s, with a bit of Fan Wank, you could even postulate that it's kind of a Spiritual Licensee Prequel to Orwell's 1984 ! An anarchic totalitarian police state ruling over a crippled, declining Britain after a hinted-at nuclear war, anyone ? The novel's descriptions of London and the state of society in Oceania are eerily similar to the movie's scenes set years after the war.
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  • If Threads had been set in the 1950s, with a bit of Fan Wank, you could even postulate that it's kind of a Spiritual Licensee Prequel to Orwell's 1984 ! An anarchic totalitarian police state ruling over a crippled, declining Britain after a hinted-at nuclear war, anyone ? The novel's descriptions of London and the state of society in Oceania are eerily similar to the movie's scenes set years after the war. * Except the nuclear damage in 1984 was restricted to one or two cities (mirroring what happened in World War Two) and a massive infrastructure is still there, just worn down by years of inefficient dictatorship. This is the exact opposite of what happens in Threads. * Well, true. But I said if it was set in the 1950s. The run-down atmosphere of post-apocalyptic Britain is still very reminescent of Oceania in a few aspects. We see that while industry is severely neglected and outdated, it still survives (steam engines, a functioning radio or lightbulb here and there, etc.) and some more powerful individuals have apparently created a rudimentary post-war leadership (though not democratic by a long shot - more of a barely functioning survivalist dictatorship).
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