These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: The Day After
Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: In a time when people were all too willing to have a nuclear war, this needed to show that it was a crappy idea to do so.
This is summed up by the disclaimer that states that the effects of a real nuclear war would be far worse than what was in the film.
Unfortunate Implications: Years after the movie was released, the writer and director themselves admitted that they'd fallen into this trap by making the white and Asian male characters (on average) calmer, more rational, braver, and more steadfast than the black and female characters. The writer was most disturbed by his treatment of McCoy the black airman, who panics, disobeys orders, deserts his post, and is reduced at the end to a quivering, irrational, screaming madman. He is the only major black character, but every minor black character but one is seen panicking or terrified, while whites around them act calmly and rationally even when the circumstances would call for panic.
