The full name of "Dr. Strangelove" is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. As can be seen from the title, the protagonist of the film is Strangelove, who has only appeared twice and has less than ten minutes of footage. PhD. In my opinion, in fact, the three main lines in the movie reflect how people's feelings about war change from fear to "love", and Dr. Strangelove can be said to be the condensation of these phenomena, or it can be said to be a concentrated expression. The first main line, the air force in the battleship, went from being unbelievable when first receiving the R plan order, to saying "the people at home are counting on you, and we must not let them down" and "you will get important promotions and Personal commendation" already reflected the so-called "tragic" atmosphere. At this time, the people in the battleship were full of a subtle "expectation" for the war. The second main line is the Air Force Base. General Ruipeng has always been the image of a happy war, and the confrontation between "fear of war" and "happy war" is not reflected by the changes before and after, but by the "peace is ours" that can be seen everywhere in the base The absurd conflict between slogans such as “Duty of the Defence” and General Ruipeng’s aggressive lead-to-fight. The reason for the war caused by General Ruipeng is even more absurd. He believes that the Soviets do not drink water, because fluoridated drinking water is a conspiracy of the Soviets, so he only drinks pure distilled water. In addition, he repeatedly refers to "pure bodily fluids", refusing to have sex with women in order to preserve his own bodily fluids (which General Rapunzel sometimes calls "essence" in the film). It can be seen that his disgust for the Soviet Union came purely from his own fantasy and self-deception, and from this came his plan to destroy the Soviet Union. Sexuality and belligerence are neatly combined here. Some commentators think that General Ruipeng is actually yang decline. If so, the portrayal of General Ruipeng is also ironic in essence: the love of war is as primitive and elementary as the love of "sex". But I didn't find a direct explanation of General Ruipeng's decline from the film.
The third main line, that is, the president of the country, General Tujdsen, the Soviet ambassador, and Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon. Among them, the image of General Tugidson is particularly funny, which is the concentrated expression of black humor. He advocated giving up contact with General Rebon all the way, attacking the Soviet Union, and gave very convincing reasons. It also reflects the director's concern about nuclear war, Plan R is a backup defense plan for self-defense, but Plan R in turn increases the chances of an accidental war breaking out, and it will break out under the leadership of a figure like General Tujdsen The odds increase sharply. The appearance of the Soviet ambassador is to use realistic scenes to visualize the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dr. Strangelove is a German nuclear expert. His right hand with xenophobia will occasionally do Nazi salutes and strangling his neck. In my opinion, the behavior of this strange hand expresses the true thoughts of Dr. Strangelove. Or the underlying idea, which is also the point that the director wants to satirize. Dr. Strangelove finally described an absurd blueprint, that is, after triggering the doomsday device, in order to retain the elite, human beings enter the underground life, and use the configuration of one man and ten women to ensure a large number of labor and restore economic productivity. In the end, Dr. Strangelove's anticipation of a nuclear explosion reached a peak, so much so that he stood up excitedly in a wheelchair and said, "My Führer, I can walk." At this point people's anxiety about nuclear has disappeared, from and to love. People are no longer worried about the fact that the nuclear explosion has occurred, but worry that if they go underground, the Soviet Union, which remains on the ground, will dominate the surface. It is also a satire of the Cold War.
The whole film reflects the conflict and balance of the absurd and the real, and the scene in which Air Force Colonel Mandela (General Ray Pen’s adjutant) was running out of money when he called the president from the phone booth was particularly impressive. It was humorous, ridiculous, absurd and true. As well as the lengthy conversation when the president called the Soviet president in an emergency, and General Tugidsen's inadvertently expressing a comical expression expecting a successful attack, it was all dark humor.
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