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
  • Harrison 2021-10-20 18:59:53

    A must-see for the history of the Cold War

  • Lue 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    The black humor is at its extreme, the absurdity has become the norm, and I can ponder this story for another 10,000 years. Peter Cyrus is brilliant.

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

  • General Jack D. Ripper: Now, I don't *avoid* women, Mandrake, but I *do* deny them my essence!

  • Lieutenant Lothar Zogg: Major Kong, is it possible this is some kind of loyalty test, you know, give the go-code and, then, recall, to see who would actually go?

    Major T. J. "King" Kong: Ain't nobody ever got the go-code yet. And ol' Ripper wouldn't given us Plan R unless them Russkies had already clobbered Washington and a lot of other towns with a sneak attack.