Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 4K 1964

Stanley Kubrick is undoubtedly a talented person. And his talent was manifested in almost everything related to cinema: whether it was camera work, direction or script writing. But as for me, his qualities were best manifested in the script work. And if Kubrick had not devoted himself to cinema, he would probably have become an excellent writer. For most of his films, it was he who wrote the scripts, and then he himself brought them to life

The caricature of the world, namely the highest ranks of the superpowers, is so colorfully ridiculed by Stanley Kubrick. Total distrust of each other, "persecution of witches", these are far from the only moments showing what dominated the minds of people who lived during the Cold War. All this is shown in a comedic form. It is through laughter that Kubrick draws the viewer's attention to both global manifestations and, at first glance, insignificant details, especially in the behavior of the characters. American generals as a symbol of expansionism and rash aggression. Their main goal is to win, regardless of its price. The Soviet ambassador is a cunning sneak, waiting for the least loss of concentration of the enemy in order to take advantage of this. The President of the United States is a dodgy politician who primarily cares about his career. And finally, Strangelove himself is an unusual symbiosis of a dictator-politician and a mad scientist. It symbolizes all of humanity. And then - a hand, as if living its own life and trying to cripple it or strangle it - as a symbol of human self-destruction in a mutual struggle.

The apogee of all this "presentation" is the final discussion in which the highest officials discuss actions after an irreversible total war, as if making it clear that nothing can stop the endless confrontation of mankind, even the fear of its complete disappearance. Here, for me, a parallel immediately slipped through with a very similar new film, Iron Sky, which was made in a modern manner, adjusted for the relevance of new aspects in the modern world.