Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Film Review
OUTSTANDING FILM
★★★★★- 5 Stars
Dr. Strangelove or, as nobody calls it, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. That's the point of the title. The film is a political satire. It made fun of the most dangerous threat in the world at the time, nuclear warfare. A general (Slim Pickens) goes mad and plans to release nuclear bombs on Russia. There's panic in the war room. The president (Peter Sellers) makes a hilarious phone call to a drunk Russian prime minister, warning him of the strike. In a different area, Captain Mandrake (also Sellers) tries to work to stop the bombings. That proves unsuccessful as his partner commits suicide in the bathroom.
A Russian ambassador comes to the War Room and shares ideas that don't follow General Buck's (George C. Scott) ideas. They fight, but of course, there is no fighting in the war room. So, they rely on Dr. Strangelove (again, Sellers) to come up with a plan to stop the bomb reaction. The movie ends and they all die.
The movie, as you can see, is very difficult to explain in words, as it is all over the place. The film is pretty much perfect though. It's brilliant enough to have humor that isn't placed stupidly and the characters interact very well. The best character has to be George C. Scott's General Buck. He himself seems more mad than Slim Pickens's 'King Kong', the one who plans to drop the bombs. The best part of the film is when Pickens rides the bomb down as it gets stuck from the hatch. Just YouTube it, it will come up. And yes, Peter Sellers plays 3 different characters. You must see that.
A Russian ambassador comes to the War Room and shares ideas that don't follow General Buck's (George C. Scott) ideas. They fight, but of course, there is no fighting in the war room. So, they rely on Dr. Strangelove (again, Sellers) to come up with a plan to stop the bomb reaction. The movie ends and they all die.
The movie, as you can see, is very difficult to explain in words, as it is all over the place. The film is pretty much perfect though. It's brilliant enough to have humor that isn't placed stupidly and the characters interact very well. The best character has to be George C. Scott's General Buck. He himself seems more mad than Slim Pickens's 'King Kong', the one who plans to drop the bombs. The best part of the film is when Pickens rides the bomb down as it gets stuck from the hatch. Just YouTube it, it will come up. And yes, Peter Sellers plays 3 different characters. You must see that.
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