cold war bound madness

Alanna 2022-04-23 07:01:01

"Dr. Strangelove" is definitely an anti-Cold War theme. A mediocre director would choose to shoot the impact of the Cold War head-on, but Kubrick chose black humor to do the opposite, using countless absurd elements to form a A "Cold War" game full of sex, Nazis, race, religion. War is the conflict between one's own reason and the enemy's reason. When everyone is rational and everyone is just, everyone is irrational and everyone is guilty.

The story begins with an absurd and crazy idea - the commander of the US Air Force Base, Jack D Pipper, felt exhausted in the sage mode, and decided that it was the Soviets who added fluoride to the Americans' drinking water, which was harmful to national security. . (If you are impotent, you will not have such a broken thing.) After that, "absurdity" sang all the way, reproduction began and reproduction ended, Dr. Strangelove suggested that politicians build underground anti-nuclear facilities, only elites can enter, and every male needs to be equipped with A number of women to complete the great cause of human reproduction. (Damn It reminds me of the previous anti-human JM cartoonist) The sexual metaphor of the character name, the plot setting of demonization and opposition, the perverted and firm character psychology, countless details show the specific direction and practical significance of the Cold War madness and antipathy. reason.

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Extended Reading
  • Dewitt 2021-10-20 18:59:56

    I didn't understand it, it seems that there is black humor in it, but it is not funny... Maybe the science fiction control can understand it?

  • Halie 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    Kuon’s sharpness is unbeatable

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

  • General Jack D. Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

    Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, no, I can't say I have.

    General Jack D. Ripper: Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water.

    Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes.

    General Jack D. Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water and not without good reason.

    Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Yes. I - I doubt quite see what you're getting at, Jack.

    General Jack D. Ripper: Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water.

  • Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Jack. Eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man, Jack - that's what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie.