Friends and Neighbors Too
When the Wind Blows
By Jimmy Murakami & Raymond Briggs
6 Jun, 2024
Big Hair, Big Guns!
1986’s When the Wind Blows is a Jimmy-Murakami-directed animated film of the Raymond Briggs nuclear war graphic novel of the same title. The score is by Roger Waters.
Retirees Jim (voiced by John Mills) and Hilda (voiced by Peggy Ashcroft) live in a picturesque cottage in rural England. Presumably, their marriage vows included the traditional promise of life-long partnership. Thanks to the rapidly warming Cold War, that promise will be fulfilled.
Note: this is not a feel-good movie.