Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

I recently watched the satire film, Dr. Strangelove. The movie is about United States Air Force General Jack Ripper whom goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R.. What is a satire you may ask, it is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice. This movie does a great job of using sarcasm and irony. Now, I do not really remember the movie as I was not quite into it considering the morning I was having when we watched it, but I understood enough to write this blog. The movie was released in January 29th, 1964, and even though there was color pictures in this time, the movie was fimled in black and white.

The President of the United States is meeting with his advisers when the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Dr. Strangelove, a former Nazi and strategy expert, concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". The President is trying to inform the Russian leader about the mistake to bomb Russia but the Russian leader is apparently quite intoxicated at the time and does not understand what the President is trying to tell him. The movie starts off very serious and as it progressed becomes very wild and out of control. The conversation between the President and the Russian leader is one of the most commical scenes throughout the movie and has become very famous.

At the end of the movie, because the one man who could of saved the world but had no change to use the pay phone, everyone is making plans to live in mines where the radiation from the Dooms Day machine will not reach them. People living in mines means that there must be a man to woman ration which some of the men in the film are very excited about because that means repopulating after the Dooms Day machine goes off and all the women would be exceptionally beautiful. At the mention of this, suddenly everyone is okay with the world coming to an end, until they start to think about the possibility that the Russians will already have this planned and rule the world in one hundred years. I would definately not watch this movie again as it was quite painful and very boring in my opinion. There were parts that I particularly enjoyed but I would not be willing to watch it again out of humor.