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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: TESTAMENT
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 12:49:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 12:49:10 1985
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Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
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Summary: 

Frankly, I couldn't care less whether or not TESTAMENT was an accurate
scientific description of the after-effects of a nuclear war.  That wasn't
the point of the movie at all.

TESTAMENT tried to show why nuclear war is bad idea, by showing the effect
of the war on one person and her family.  A depiction of nuclear winter might
move you to stand against nuclear war, but for me, the scenes where the
little boy died and where the recording is discovered on the answering
machine are much more likely to change my emotions and political stance.  A
film is hard-pressed to make a statement on broad, general issues without
showing how those issues become personal.

						-- Scott Turner