Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

It is Stanley Kubrick’s satirical pro active black comedy about a delusional commander of a United States air force who plans an attack to the soviet union with nuclear weapons, to destroy a communist conspiracy, which he considered to be the cause behind his post coital fatigue and this theory occurred to him during sexual intercourse.

Although a nuclear attack generally requires a presidential authority in order to be initiated here the commander(Ripper) uses plan R an emergency war plan enabling a senior officer to launch a retaliation strike against the Soviets if everyone in the normal chain of command, including the President, has been killed during a sneak attack.

The film has a willingness to follow the situations to its logical conclusions –nuclear annihilation.

Finally the bomb explodes triggering the doomsday machine and lands in some parts of Russia. In the concluding scenes a visibly excited Dr. Strangelove bolts out of his wheelchair, shouting "Mein Führer, I can walk!". Abruptly, the film ends with a barrage of nuclear explosions, accompanied by Vera Lynn's famous World War II song "We'll Meet Again"

The genius of Dr. Strangelove is that it's possible to laugh, and laugh hard, while still recognizing the intelligence and insight behind the humor. His comedy is more lethal than a nuclear waste dump.

This land mark movie’s madcap humor remains undiminished through time.

 

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