Like the TV Day of the Triffids from the same year, the style
reflects its times as much as its source material written in a different
(postwar) era. But I wish I could have found some stills or clips of
the genre-breaking and apparently even more criticised aspect from the
original book -- the breakdown of reality leading to an escape into
another world.
"'D'
is a chronicler of a society in chaos, who looks down on the marauding
gangs, and rubbish-strewn streets from the fortress prison of her flat.
Buffeted by inner dreams and longings, D finds an alternative world by
stepping through the wall of her flat, like Alice through the Looking
Glass. Here it is Victorian England, the bosom of an unsettled family,
harbingers, perhaps, of the decay to come. She flits between the two
sides of her double life, always observing, never participating, and
watches as her protégé, Emily, becomes involved with vagrants' leader
Gerald and their efforts to control the violent scavengers fail." IMDB.
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