Name: Dr. Strangelove
Rating: **** stars (out of ****)
Genre:  Black comedy
Rated: PG-13(maybe...)
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: (Someone) Sellers


While reading through MMZ's Deterrance article, I ran across the word nuclear war. Well, that triggered back a movie I'd seen a while ago that I'd forgotten all about until now. Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is a bizarre story about politics are nuclear warfare.

The story begins with a military warleader for the airforce who orders all planes near Russia to attack and bomb the country starting a nuclear war. When the President(Sellers) finds out that the planes can't be recalled, the War Room of the United States is put in an uproar. The President has to deal with the derranged rambling of General Buckhamm and the uproar when the Russian embassador is let in the War Room and sees the "big boards". The entire country's safety is based upon the mad airforce captian's assistant, Mandrake(Sellers), who is the only person that can convince the General into calling off his ships. With lines such as "Gentlemen, there's no fighting in here; this is the War Room!", Dr. Strangelove is a brilliant dark comedy into the world of the Cold War and the unstableness of a government in a crisis.

Under the guidance of Ex-Nazi and now cheif scientist for the United States, Dr. Strangelove(Sellers {again}), the movie takes a bizzare twist into the world of global armeggedon and the reprecussions brought with it. Another masterpiece in the Stanley Kubrick collection.


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