Brilliant Play on Power

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2001)

Dr. Strangelove is filled with the charming, cute, hilarious comical character of Peter Sellers, brought to the precise degree of properness by the master director Stanley Kubrick. The film has just as much to say about the societal clash in power as A Clockwork Orange, but does so with such a clever attitude that it adds an extra layer: comedy. The portrait of patriotism, post-traumatic stress, guilt, greed, misconduct, international panic, even the apocalypse are brought to screen with such immense humor that it even escapes the viewer's attention outside of intense analysis.
It's stunning when a film can be watched over and over and over again and each time discovered for a new time in a new way. Truly a comic and satirical masterpiece, topping The Trouble With Harry as the foundation of the 'black comedy'.