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Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Comedy, War 95 min PG
Rotten Tomatoes98%Metacritic97IMDb
The hot-line suspense comedy.
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
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Epic, comic, meticulous and ironic.
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Stanley Kubrick's, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the best satire of all time. The film is over 60 years old and has aged perfectly, every joke, both the layered and the brilliantly stupid, land today just as well as they did in '64. This film is Kubrick at his best, the film doesn't feel cold and detached like some of his other work, if anything this film feels deeply personal. The film's greatest moment is it's final sequence. The collection of real-world bomb explosions paired with Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" is such a beautifully devastating sequence that leaves the viewer with one thought: "War is terrible". It's a horrific sequence paired with such a non-horrific song. It's a song that balances heartbreak and optimism. The film spends its entire runtime making fun of everyone involved in war. Every person in a position of power is mocked and portrayed as foolish. Both the Americans (the main targets) and the Russians are mocked throughout the film in various ways, usually targeting their intelligence. The most famous shot from this film is a brilliantly simple metaphor. Air Force Major T. J. "King" Kong riding the bomb as it
Read the whole review on TMDBJust as "Seven Days in May" was hitting our screens, Stanley Kubrick used a superbly over-the-top effort from Sterling Hayden to depict a rogue general who has decided to use all the checks and balances in place to defend the United States to his own mischievous advantage and launch a pre-emptive bombing campaign on those pesky "Ruskies". It's only his perfectly moustachioed British executive officer "Mandrake" (Peter Sellers) who smells a rat, but he is on lockdown in their air force base that is, indeed, being besieged - but not by the "Reds". Meantime, the American President (also Sellers) is only just finding out that he's about to start a nuclear war and nobody knows quite how to top it - not even his chief of staff "Turgidson" (George C. Scott). A call to his opposite number in the Kremlin reveals that the Soviets haven't been letting the grass grow, and that they have their own shield - and one that's use would make the effects of the Hiroshima bomb look like a damp squib. With all this mistrust and mayhem abounding, is it going to be possible to avert the destruction of humanity? Sellers has multiple parts and carries them out effectively, but it's the support from Hayden,
Read the whole review on TMDB**Sex and war in an extremely sarcastic and intelligent film.** This film is one of the best of director Stanley Kubrick's career, and is also one of the most iconic and acidic satire that cinema has ever seen. Inspired by a tense novel that was published in the same period, and by the political and military events that were taking place at the time, the film shoots in all directions to give us the most absurd and ridiculous image of the rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union. Despite everything, and all the points in favor, I don't think this film is a true comedy. To me, honestly, it didn't make me laugh, although I absorb and understand the acidic irony that is here. The script begins with a very serious incident that could be true (and the US even reviewed its military strategies in order to prevent something similar from happening in real life): after inventing, in his troubled mind, a crazy conspiracy theory according to which the Soviets are poisoning American drinking water, a crazed general initiates a pre-orchestrated military protocol designed to retaliate against a Russian attack with the full force of their nuclear arsenal. But with one detail: there was no Russi
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