Review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) by Huseyn B — 05 Oct 2012

One of the most famous bands of world cinema, probably something lost over time, although in 2006 by the magazine "Premier" was among the fifty greatest comedies of all time. It is difficult to assess the incredible audacity had moved to England, the American director Stanley Kubrick, who decided to make fun of a game of politicians, the military and the crazy ambition created "superchernuyu comedy" about balancing the world on the brink of nuclear war in the face. Had just struck the Caribbean crisis - the fate of mankind hanging in the balance almost. Usually by pressing the red button by a madman could have led to a fatal crash.

Kubrick uses mocking the title of his painting tips from Dale Carnegie books on how to "stop worrying and start living." After all, the inventor possessed a nuclear bomb, a professor with the "speaking" name Strangelove (ie Strange Love), and idiot-general with no less momentous passport data (Jack D. Ripper, ie, Jack D. Ripper), covered by a psychosis "red threat "and even U.S. President, along with the General Secretary of the CPSU - they may one day stop worrying and start to die. Because already it is not saving after a nuclear war breaks out.

Absurd and irresponsible universal serenity expressed in tragifarsovoy director, grotesque, almost pamphleteering manner when magnified and karikaturiziruyutsya all actions of the heroes (the most accurate "parade nonsense" shows Peter Sellers, who played three roles - the Dr. Strangelove, as well as the U.S. president and the captain British army). The confrontation between the two world systems is reduced to a satirical war of nerves in giant cabinets with round tables and charts in the wall. But U.S. critics as one of the best scenes of the film talking heads of the two superpowers on the direct line.