The story told by "Dr. Strange Love" is simple: how the beginning and end of a nuclear war enough to destroy mankind got out of the control of the political leaders of the two superpowers.
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The movie started when an American general, Ripper, thought on a whim that the Soviets had contaminated his body fluids with fluorinated water, causing him to have sexual dysfunction, so he wanted to "level down" the Soviet Union. (The more developed the weapons, the more bloated the system. In the end, even the President of the United States could not withdraw the general's orders. 34 bombers carrying B-52s "will not hesitate" sailed to the radar detection zone of the Soviet airspace)
The movie ends with the German-born Dr. Strange Love (Peter Sellers, the actor of Dr. Strange Ai, plays three roles in the movie: Dr. Strangelove, American President Muffley and British captive Mandrake) as an American weapon research expert, watching After the massive hydrogen bomb explosion destroyed the United States and the Soviet Union, he got up from his wheelchair-the world war made the Nazis and Nazism "penis" erection-the right hand of Dr. Qi Ai wearing black gloves was a symbol of subconsciousness. The depressed Nazi consciousness finally ceased self-gambling and trembling, and was "released."
Yes, Kubrick himself agrees in the interview that sex is indeed used as a metaphor in the film. For example, the "masculine" views of the two major national security agencies on the effectiveness and deterrence of nuclear weapons are comparable to absurd male sexual fantasies. For another example, the video frame starts from the two planes in the up and down position, and the ending shot shows General Kun holding a hydrogen bomb and spraying it to the ground. (In fact, the names of many characters are also sexual allusions) This is the change of "Orgasm" to "War-gasm".
The reason for the classic is not how exquisite the story is, but Kubrick's consistent forward-looking, pioneering, and black humor-the black humor of the domestic people after the failure of the Korean War and the Vietnam War in the United States in the 1960s: a depiction of reality And irony, fantasy or denial--the fighters in the bomber can work meticulously, or they can spend their free two minutes to read a few pages of "Playboy" magazine; the politicians in the Pentagon can either suit leather shoes or chew green Arrow Chewing Gum is smart and can be as sloppy as a kid. Originally, the two superpowers used nuclear deterrence as a technique for fearing the enemy, and took "peace" as their mission; however, when the consequence of nuclear deterrence is to destroy everything in mankind and the world, what exactly did it "deter"?
Some people say that professors of international relations majors in American universities often use this film as a teaching example, which also involves the relationship between Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. For example, Mandrake is a British person. In the end, Mandrake guessed that the password for the machine return operation should be P, O The combination of E and E-either Purity of Essence or Peace on Earth, the former is Ripper's fantasies, and the latter is Mandrake's ideals. The British want peace, but the Americans don't. The former Nazi Dr. Qi Ai is better than Mandrake in the United States. What the United States regards as the standard is this kind of diplomatic strategy that maintains peace while launching war.
Kubrick imagined the apocalypse like this: a few mushroom clouds, a handful of elites who swore to reproduce the offspring of mankind, hid the bottomless underground with 1:10 ratios of men and women, waiting for the end of the half-life. So, just from the emotional point of view, the end of the film responds well to the title of the film: Strangelove, strange love-from the fear of nuclear weapons to the love of nuclear weapons, of course Dr. Strangelove is included, and excitedly rushed to the ground. General Kun, the fantasy of a beautiful polygamous life, and the government officials in the Pentagon where the United States will defeat the Soviet Union again in the future... That's why the music of We will meet again sounded.
With this strange love, the use of nuclear weapons is not the real "doomsday", but the beginning of a new world.
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