An oddly fascinating film

Rating: 9/10 (5 December 2009)

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this film because I generally don't opt to watch films that deal with the war subject. I just find it to be dark and depressing. Don't get me wrong, this movie is dark and depressing, but the use of comedy to lighten the mood was a very clever tactic. I couldn't stop laughing for most of the film. I noticed with respect to the sound that the "marching on" song was played every time there was a scene with the plane that was to release the nuclear bomb. I thought that it was a good way of familiarizing the audience with the mood of the people in the plane. I found it highly ironic that all of these safety mechanisms were put into place in case the other country dropped a nuclear bomb, and yet they could not be deactivated under any circumstance. I guess the whole concept of a nuclear war is ironic in itself though. I thought that the acting was superb in the movie and I wouldn't have guessed that the same person played all three of those characters. What a feat. I couldn't get enough of Dr. Strangelove. I really liked the sequences of nuclear bomb explosions at the end of the film. I thought that was a nice piece of cinematography to add to the film. The film also made good use of parallel editing. The plane, the base, the pentagon...and everything was occurring simultaneously, supposedly. Outstanding cinema.