Testament

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Dmitriy A @dma222 Jun 24, 2025 good movie, recommended

Albus W Nov 27, 2018 As a movie buff who has matured with the film industry, you have to keep the expectations relevant to the time the film was made. Some of the acting is a bit hokey and the dialogue a bit contrived and cliche. However, the film quickly sucks you in as things get real and they get real fast. To me, the plot was not about a gripping tale of survival and a ray of light peaking out of the darkness. It's simply a punch you straight in the face, it is what it is, gloomy film about how a woman watches her babies slowly rot and die. Her community solemnly parallels her tragic experiences trying to hold on but eventually surrender and sympathy and the culture of their town with each resident. Essentially you see how life loses all purpose and makes no sense but her internal instincts push her to live on while there is no hope and no reason to live. There are truly touching moments, such as discovering an unheard message on an answering machine and finding a lost teddy bear, that magnify the trivial aspects of everyday life into extremely important experiences that sky rocket your heart to hope but quickly bring you mercilessly crashing back to earth reminding you there is escaping. It is a foreboding of a gruesome fate of the survivors of a nuclear holocaust. See more

Oct 12, 2018 Acting was decent but the subject matter oh so depressing, Message; "Nuclear war and its aftermath would suck." Yep, got it...

Aug 16, 2018 I first saw this movie when it was in theaters in 1983. At the time, it was groundbreaking. At this point, no one else had made a movie that showed what the effects of a nuclear attack would be on people who were far enough away to not what happened, but close enough to experience the effects. Jane Alexander played the role perfectly, as always. Dealing with the desintigration of her family, her neighborhood, and her community as people either leave for hopes of a better future, or slowly die from radiation poisoning. The thing that really stuck with me is, when the movie ended, not one person got up from their seat. Even after all the lights came up and the theater staff started to cleanup the theatre for the next showing. It was that powerful. See more

Hagrid L Nov 21, 2017 A good post-apocalypse movie, little seen by most folks. It reveals the banality of the end-of-the-world in suburban America. Despite a lack of direct impact from the nuclear strikes, society collapses anyway. See more

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