Kubrick got us through a tough time with humor.

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2013)

Some subjects are so frightening that the only way to deal with them is through humor,and Stanley Kubrick was smart enough to know that.It was the early 60's and nuclear war and the potential for destruction and devastation was very much on our minds.Though production was completed before the assassination of JFK,it would become all the more important to see after the event because things became even more tense then.Peter Sellers was just the man to put the icing on the cake.He played multiple roles here,the most hysterical of them being the title character,Dr. Strangelove.I hear that even the normally serious minded Kubrick had trouble stifling his laughter watching Sellers go.Simply put,he did his job well.The film got us all through a tough time.Well done.