The film's narrative is actually very simple, but the short length is filled with a lot of political satire, and Kubrick's dark humor makes people laugh. The first is the fear of nuclear war. One day a war madman, a soldier or a politician, will press the button of a nuclear bomb. This is a political fable, but not necessarily a political prophecy. He used a film to wake up human beings to be vigilant at all times and to control the power in their hands that can destroy all living beings. Followed by all kinds of strange characters: Jack the war madman, the chattering general, the scientific maniac Dr. Strangelove, the rigid Soviet ambassador, the drunk and manic Soviet prime minister, all of which are satires on the politicians and soldiers of the two camps. In contrast, only the president and the captain count as normal people. In the end, the film satirizes almost all the political elements of that era with limited space. General Talker fought with the ambassador as soon as they met, and Jack believed that the red camp only drank vodka and poured fluoridated water into the United States. In fact, they were all stereotypes of the Soviet Union and satirized the fanatical McCarthyism of that era. We know the Soviets drank vodka simply because they were mostly Russian and never put fluoridated water in America. The doomsday device produced by Doctor Strangelove and the Soviet Union at the same time satirized the frenzied arms competition between the two camps during the Cold War. It will waste people's money, affect people's lives, and may push the earth to the end of the world. The final words and gestures of Dr. Strangelove tell us that the Nazis and Social Darwinism never left us, they just lurked in a different form. The film ends in an epic nuclear war, in stark contrast to the calm clouds at the beginning. Kubrick must be a despairing person. He feels that a nuclear war will break out in the future, and only such an ending can truly wake up mankind. And I think that in the end, Dr. Strangelove's proposal to cancel monogamy and the ratio of males to females is 1:10 is not bad, and even won the approval of everyone in the two camps.
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