It could be the end of the world as we know it

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2000)

We don't know how many times in that period the world risked to live a story like the one of "Dr. Strangelove". A fool general orders to his airplanes to go to launch the Atom Bomb on Russia and while an English captain tries to change his mind, all the military chiefs of USA are reunited to try to solve the problem with the Russian Ambassador and a strange and pro Nazi scientist called Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick puts on a tragic satire on the Cold War, showing us the anti communism and the foolish paranoid of the militaries, especially Buck Turgidson (played by a restless George C. Scott) and Jack D. Ripper (which sounds as Jack The Ripper, the famous English serial killer), which Sterling Hayden plays with great intensity. In his face is impressed all the hate and the rage of a stupid man, who became paranoid. Then, there is the wonderful performance by Peter Sellers, which plays the reasonable Captain Mandrake, the stupid and impotent President Muffey and the terrific Doctor Strangelove, a man on a wheelchair with a hand rebel to the rest of the body and who, at the end of the movie, jumps on with the right hand up revealing his Nazist origin. This movie is very funny and cruel, a reflection against war and human madness, which can only guide world to the ruin and the destruction.