Review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) by Jez M — 16 Oct 2013
"Gentlemen! you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!".
Stanley Kubricks black and white cold war satire from 1964 is a film that has aged surprisingly well and feels both well-made and relevant even today. It contains an ensemble of incredible performances such as Petter Sellers in three roles Dr.Strangelove, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake and as President Merkin Muffley, George C Scott as General Buck Turgidsson, Sterling Hayden as the insane General Jack D Ripper, Slim Pickens as Major T. J. Kong and Peter Bull as Sovjet ambassador Alexei. This is a constantly comical endeavor, but with a serious political message, it portrays fictional top politicians, scientists and military officers of the US in childish arguments over an absurd situation brought on by their own paranoid and aggressive political thinking. The film makes a lot of good points mainly on how the policies of the cold war was conflicting with the welfare of the human race and also how those policies could have irreparably damaged the earth and the future of humanity.
This review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) was written by Jez M on 16 Oct 2013.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has generally received very positive reviews.
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