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At some "realistic" level, "Testament" may indeed have 
underestimated the prolonged horrors of a nuclear war aftermath
in ways "Threads" did not.  But the death of the mother's
(Jane Alexander's) little boy (remember the scene at the sink?)
and her almost maniacal search for his teddy-bear told me more
than I ever wanted to know about a particular part of that
horror.

The deaths that follow seem to have a lessening impact until,
by the end of the film, the viewer is damned near numb.  This
could be a flaw, or a far-too-successful realization of what
used to be considred a "fallacy," i.e., Imitative Form.
-- 
Ken Wolman
Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, NJ
lcuxc!kenw

	You can't "read" me because I'm not a book.