Black humour, I've learned, truly is the way to my heart.

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2011)

Released in 1964, Dr Strangelove capitalises on the tension of global post-war paranoia and the tragic, blood-stained past to crack the most inappropriate jokes to devastating effect. Kubrick's black humour in Dr Strangelove was the joke needed to break the ice of the cold war – and despite its specific subject matter in this respect, his tendency to subvert conflict with comedy is universally appreciable. Dr Strangelove has the effect of La Grande Illusion, The War Game and Nuit et Brouillard rolled into one and injected with an infectious and hilarious absurdity. It is completely unique and the quintessential cold-war-era-HUAC satire. Probably my favourite film of all time.
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