After reading many comments, many people don't understand why it is called the sum of fear. The interpretation of the climax stage in the movie is a good show of how the fear between each other caused things to gradually get out of control, and eventually almost destroyed each other and the whole world. This fear is deeply rooted in human instinct, and it makes people wonder if you master the nuclear button. The president really faces this situation. Will they behave better than in the movie? After all, they are all human beings. Under certain circumstances, people are very weak. In the film, the Russian president began to give people the feeling of lack of authority and difficulty in controlling the situation. In the end, he was more sensible than the American president and was able to resolve mutual destruction. Among them, they believed that the other party could destroy themselves is also a very important prerequisite. After all, no one is sure to win in a wave of nuclear assaults, making them instinctively want to gamble in fear, but also strongly want to back down. Another point is that even in a crisis, the level of human consciousness is so deep-rooted that the protagonist as a low-level intelligence analyst can hardly cross the gap between this level and pass the real intelligence to the highest decision-maker.
In the real world, the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union who have mastered nuclear weapons also felt pressured when they recalled the nuclear button after resignation, as if one person mastered the fate of the world. The responsibility is too great, but in essence they are just mortals. Fortunately, they Most of them have never experienced that kind of crisis, except for Kennedy and Khrushchev, they are actually scared enough.
However, in extreme cases, reason is unreliable, and fear may overwhelm everything. In the long run, as weapons are becoming more and more destructive, the harm of destructive events will inevitably be greater and greater, especially for various interest organizations in various countries. In the case of pursuing their respective interests. The solution may be a strong and reliable organization that can overcome human weaknesses and supervise everything. It does not need to stifle all the signs of danger, but can effectively intervene and solve it in time when the danger is sufficiently great.
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