One of the best political satires

Rating: 8/10 (5 October 2005)

Dr. Strangelove must be the best political satire to have come out during the cold war era. As the president puts it to the soviet premier "one of our base commanders went little funny in his head and did a silly thing". Apparently the silly thing that president is talking about is that this commander ordered his planes to attack Soviet Union and drop the hydrogen bomb. As a deterrent, Soviet Union has a doomsday device which, if attacked, will automatically get triggered ending the world and both the processes are irreversible of course.
The conversation between the president and the soviet premier has to be one of the funniest that I have heard. The statement "gentlemen, you cannot fight in a war-room" should be taught in colleges as an example of irony. Peter sellers in a triple role is absolutely amazing. It is ominous, it is dark and it's hilarious.