We accept the world in which we are placed

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2005)

"We accept the world in which we are placed".
This film has a very ironic sense of humor but beside that there is a hidden message I believe.
This quote sums up the film because Dr. Strangelove is set in 1950's in a time of secrecy and fear of a communist invasion. In Dr. Strangelove there is a constant threat of being overrun but the communist nation. A constant fear of what the Russian's will do next. This point can be seen in the way that George C. Scott who plays General Turgidson. When Scott finds out that the president of the United States is going to let a Russian into the War Room, he immediately packs up his papers in a panicked fashion and he is concerned about letting the Russian see the "Big Board". Also when Peter Sellers is playing Dr. Strangelove and says that it is inevitable that the world will end. He reveals the idea of sending the important people in to a mineshaft to survive and nothing will infringe on breaching the mineshaft gap. Where there are ten women to every one man, ultimately creating a perfect race. This is just like the Nazi party how they wanted to create perfect people or the ideal Aryan race.
All in all this is a very funny and ironic film and i would recommend it to all of my friends.