![]() And it’s more timely than ever, this B&W film, even if we may hope that it isn’t.According to the Bulletin’s statement, the decision does not suggest that the situation has stabilized: “On the contrary, the Clock remains the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse because the world remains stuck in an extremely dangerous moment.” Strangelove or reacquaint yourself with it, as it still stands as the standard bearer against which all war movies will be measured. So I highly recommend that you check out Dr. Why this complete lack of deep criticism from our mainstream war movies? Sure there’s Oliver Stone making some jabs at mass surveillance, but the rest of what’s created is hard to find and shown in only in fringe arthouse theaters. War porn.Īnd I wonder about this sometimes. If anything it is yet another treatise for war. I left feeling that it was weak in many ways, but especially when it trumpeted the murder of darkies. I watched Eye in the Sky recently, a movie that ostensibly was even-handed about the drone war. In fact, I cannot think of a single movie that manages to come close. ![]() In fact, even when it’s compared to the modern pantheon of war movies, and the miniscule amount of anti-war movies, or “even-handed” movies, this classic really stands out. Strangelove covers both the logic (or lack therof) of this sub-culture as well as highlighting the absurdity of the main thrust, only goes to show why it’s such a timeless movie. One then realizes not only how foolish the entire effort is, how easy it was for our “cash-strapped” government to find a trillion to update these nukes, nevermind how other countries are trying to possess them so as to stave off a future attack from our masters of the universe in DC. Should we bother to point out what happens when these nukes detonate and the civilization-ending nuclear winter sets in? What happens when there’s a mistake, as there’s nearly been several times before? And it doesn’t take the two nuclear superpowers to set off a global catastrophe: even the likes of India and Pakistan could cause much global damage. In fact, the esteemed scientists over at the Doomsday clock have us closer to midnight than anytime since the Cuban Missile Crisis - 2.5 minutes to midnight. This is mainly because much of the logic presented so well and so absurdly in the movie still exists today.Īnd if the tensions between Russia and us seem to have cooled down some (though they’ve arisen again), that doesn’t mean the risk, to say nothing of the consequences, is any worse. Strangelove was, is, how no movies today seem capable of matching it in terms of depth, insight and humor, and how it’s still relevant for our times, even if it speaks of the fears from the previous generation. Someone from my generation shrugged off the movie as something “before their time.” The conversation then moved on to other matters but later on I thought about this attitude and wondered how good a movie Dr. Strangelove, in the context of nuclear stockpile reductions. ![]() Someone recently brought up the movie, Dr. Sharp, witty and incisive, it remains the standard for movies, to say nothing of movies in the comedy or war genres. Of all the movies I have watched, rewatched and loved, few are able to compare to Dr.
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