Flawless, indeed!

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2003)

The TCM commentator made an excellent point when introducing this movie tonight. MTV and that ilk have produced a generation of short attention span viewers. Tight shots, quick takes, "interesting" angles. These poor blighted folks have no patience for, e.g., a wide shot of Peter Sellers walking across the computer room and turning out the overhead lights one by one before leaving. They are unwilling, and probably unable, to invest the time to study this scene.
True, this is not a key scene, but it does say something about the methodical, careful nature of this Sellers character. And it also helps to establish a pre-crisis tone of calm normalcy, ready to be shattered by the actions of a loony air base commander.
-R.