This film must the most enthralling political film of all time...

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 2001)

Dr Strangelove requires three things from the viewer in order for the viewer to truly enjoy this epic. First, it acquires a common understanding of history and politics. Second it insists you to have a good humour for black comedy. Third, it asks for your attention and patience.
I first saw this film a very long time ago and there wasn't a moment where I thought that a scene didn't need adjustment. Kubrick didn't appreciate labelling his style as a perfectionist. He waited and let the public assess his skills. Every scene in this movie is wonderfully crafted, magically absorbed into the gloomy shade of black and white and astonishingly fallen into the pit of political unstabilization.
The movie's storyline is pretty simple. B-52 airplanes have reached the outskirts of the Russian border and are ready to bomb down the country with 40 megatonns of H-Bomb, commanded by the strict authority of General Ripper. Peter Sellers, the actor who brings the foundation of the entire film, plays three characters. One, a sissy British commander. Two, the american president. Three, Dr.Strangelove who is a peculiarly strange German with the obvious touch of neo-nazism running through the veins of his uncontrollable right hand that salutes the 'Mein Fuhrer' shake at almost every line. The character of General 'Buck' is the most eccentric - almost all American-hate-Rooskies-officers are like that.
Although this film contains its plot, the clear message it tries to bring over to the world is the risk and potential danger existing within the constant usage of nuclear implements of war. The film was released two years after the event of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Most critics did not find the film funny at all. They just had to wait ten years to understand its personal implication towards the savagness brought by the idiocy of the modern world. It does not support any political sides nor does it try to summon up any other message. It just aims to explain one thing: both sides are able to kill off each other and each side is as corrupted, barren and deadly as one another.
Enjoy.