11-26-2018, 05:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2021, 03:08 PM by ZpaceJ0ck0.)
So I finally got around and watched Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
What isn't there to like about this movie? From the sheer absurdity and "logical irrationality" so to speak, to the excellent performances of Peter Seller (probably the most versatile acting I've seen in a long time), George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden (performing the most comically over-the-top yet serious role in the film), this is easily one the best films in Kubrick's repertoire, as well as one of the best satirical films of all time.
I applaud everyone involved in this project for releasing such a film in 1963, the year in which paranoia over a nuclear holocaust was at it's height, partly thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Why? Because of the intention behind it. This movie wanted to tell it's audience the following message: "calm down, people. The end of the world is NOT upon us!".
Needless to say, they were right.
"yo, the movie sounds funny but it also sounds very political. Is it propaganda?" - Maybe back in the day (when the film first came out) it could have been seen as propaganda, but in retrospect it is not. I mean, does it counts as propaganda if the movie was right all along? The fact that the world did not end back during the cold war proves the point of the movie.
What isn't there to like about this movie? From the sheer absurdity and "logical irrationality" so to speak, to the excellent performances of Peter Seller (probably the most versatile acting I've seen in a long time), George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden (performing the most comically over-the-top yet serious role in the film), this is easily one the best films in Kubrick's repertoire, as well as one of the best satirical films of all time.
I applaud everyone involved in this project for releasing such a film in 1963, the year in which paranoia over a nuclear holocaust was at it's height, partly thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Why? Because of the intention behind it. This movie wanted to tell it's audience the following message: "calm down, people. The end of the world is NOT upon us!".
Needless to say, they were right.
"yo, the movie sounds funny but it also sounds very political. Is it propaganda?" - Maybe back in the day (when the film first came out) it could have been seen as propaganda, but in retrospect it is not. I mean, does it counts as propaganda if the movie was right all along? The fact that the world did not end back during the cold war proves the point of the movie.