The amazing faces of Peter Sellers and Stanley Kubrick

Rating: 9/10 (5 September 2012)

Comedy is such a hard thing to make, but Kubrick just manages to merge the utterly surreal (like the scene with General Jack Ripper blowing away that enormous machine gun, or the phone call to The President himself from a phone booth, located in a military base!) with deafening hard-stone problems that we sure have even today -the nuclear kind of problems- and a great depiction of the kind of military men who used to command -IF they still don't do it now- the USA's army, these obsessive, sometimes ignorant, and bearing an insuperable willpower men that would throw gargantuan numbers of victims to the air (20 million!, 150 million!) just to preserve their nation's spirit, their nation's honor.
Bravo for Stanley, giving birth to a film that while treating the most flagrant type of issues (specially since this picture dates from 1964) can be thoroughly enjoyed by a little kid.