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War Games Review

[|War Games] was a very interesting movie. It was from the perspective of a young guy during the Cold War. He had no idea what was going on in the Cold War. One day, he accidentally hacked a government computer and almost started WWIII. He was very confused and had to go on an adventure to save the world.

This movie was not very realistic, but it did portray the mood of the time. The people were all very scared. Any small incident could cause a large commotion and neither country trusted the other. At the beginning of the movie, the government removed men from the equation by making the missiles launch automatically. This showed just how scared everyone was. The kid in the movie also was very scared. He thought he was just playing a game, but it was much more than that. Everyone was scared. The time was a very scary time, and by the end of the movie, an important lesson is learned.

You learn that nobody wins a nuclear war. If one nuke were to be fired, millions if not billions would die. Nobody can claim to be the winner if that many people die. No one really wanted a nuclear war, but there was such a scare, that no country wanted to be left undefended. This lesson was a very important one in the Cold War.