Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964)
dir. Stanley Kubrick
Laughing so you don't scream, since 1964.
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A rogue Air Force general triggers an unrecallable nuclear strike on the USSR, and the War Room scrambles — bureaucratically, absurdly — to stop the end of the world.
Why it’s here
The original 'laugh so you don't scream' text — mutually assured destruction played entirely for farce, and the farce is the argument: absurdity is what nuclear brinkmanship actually looks like from the inside.
Where This Film Lives
- Topics
- cold war
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