it is now or never, we will meet again

Dovie 2022-03-22 09:01:02

One winter afternoon, with overcast clouds, I clicked on this film on Bilibili’s website, and the timeline showed that the length of the film was ninety-four minutes.
The ninety-fourth minute was the last time the plane dropped the bomb:
it was the lazy voice of Vera Lynn, the "battlefield sweetheart", and it was "We will meet again";
from Szczecin in the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea Trieste, from the vast Siberian plains of the snowy sea to the turbulent English Channel, where humans live, flowers are blooming, blossoming, pale, and time has stopped.
I don't know when there is sunshine, but the dark clouds have not dissipated yet.

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Extended Reading
  • Angelo 2022-03-24 09:01:02

    Peter Sellers is a fucking genius.

  • Serenity 2021-10-20 18:59:51

    Kneeling to Kuye, not only the spectator of the origin, but also the prophet of the end, he is probably not a human being on earth. The elder brother who plays the doctor is divided into three roles, which not only makes the audience excited, but he must also be terribly cool.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb quotes

  • President Merkin Muffley: And why haven't you radioed the planes countermanding the go-code?

    General "Buck" Turgidson: Well, I'm afraid we're unable to communicate with any of the aircraft.

    President Merkin Muffley: Why?

    General "Buck" Turgidson: As you may recall, sir, one of the provisions of Plan 'R' provides that once the go-code is received, the normal SSB Radios in the aircraft are switched into a special coded device which I believe is designated as CRM-114. Now, in order to prevent the enemy from issuing fake or confusing orders, CRM-114 is designed not to receive at all - unless the message is preceded by the correct three-letter recall code group prefix.

    President Merkin Muffley: Then do you mean to tell me, General Turgidson, that you will be unable to recall the aircraft?

    General "Buck" Turgidson: That's about the size of it. However, we are plowing through every possible three-letter combination of the code. But since there are 17,000 permutations... it's going to take us about two-and-a-half days to transmit them all.

    President Merkin Muffley: How soon did you say our planes will be entering Russian radar cover?

    General "Buck" Turgidson: About 18 minutes from now, sir.

  • [first title card]

    Title Card: It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead.