Dr. Strangelove (Or how I learned to love the film... (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (DVD))

Member Name: Tsportmat

Product:	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (DVD)
Date:	11/05/09 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: Subtle, topical even now, light hearted way of raising awareness.

Disadvantages: Black and white maybe?

I kept hearing about this film, and I thought why not give it a go. Not usually a huge fan of Black & White (I know I can't generalise like that, they just don't 'attract' me as such).

Anyway I gave it a go, despite it's age, I like old films, maybe not normally this old, which some exceptions. Anyway I was pleasantly surprised.

This film isn't a 'comedy' as such, it's more of a light hearted look at a the beginning of a Nuclear war; you know, the sort of subtle comedy which a purely American folm would never pull off ;)

That may sound strange, and it kind of is, but it really suits the film. You can definitely see how topical it would have been back then, and it seems that some things never change as you could still almost see this happening these days, so as well as being light hearted it is definitely thought provoking. It makes you think just how much chaos and how quickly the world could potentially end if an all out nuclear war started. (Especially when we think that the Trident missiles of nuclear subs are around 100 times the power of these bombs, and can attack any point on the globe...

Anyway, the gist of the story is a General who kind of goes crazy, and launches a seemingly unstoppable nuclear attack on Russia with a large squadron of B52s, and that really is all there is to the story, various people's attempts to stop the attack.

The acting is good for the time I'd say, and it doesn't feel like a dated film really, certainly not a 60s film. Films don't become cult classics for no reason, and this black comedy is not to be missed, I'd say this is one of those films which simply has to be watched before you die (maybe in a nuclear war??)

Summary: A must see cult classic.