Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* (1964)
This is about as black as black comedy can get. Only Stanley Kubrick could make the annihilation of mankind via nuclear weapons funny. This film blows by pretty quickly at 96 minutes, but it’s got a lot of meat to it.
So what would happen if a paranoid high ranking general went off the deep end and decided to make it his personal mission to win the Cold War? What failsafe measures are there to prevent such a thing from happening? Dr. Strangelove examines the fragile balance that could very well be going on with our stockpiled nuclear arsenal. While some would say it’s dated because the Cold War is over, this movie is still very poignant today. There are some rather loose cannon dictators in the global community with itchy trigger fingers. It’s really not too hard to envision such a situation.
Peter Sellers is delicious, playing three different characters with three wildly differing personalities. The entire cast is excellent, in fact, creating a rousing film with many famous scenes and memorable quotes. Definitely worth seeing.
I will warn you though, if you aren’t very receptive to dark comedy, you’ll find this movie either boring, silly in a bad way, or very depressing.
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