A movie to watch on a yearly basis

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2005)

Not only is Peter Sellers brilliant in his triple role, but Kubrick is on top of his game. When you factor in the political context at the time that this was released, the black comedy becomes positively Stygian.
The madness of the SAC commander (Sterling Hayden) is the perfect complement for the MADness (Mutually Assured Destruction) of the the nuclear stand off and cold war. One might even say that the only rational response to madness is madness. Kubrick certainly did.
The perfect cold war trilogy may well be Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, and Fail Safe. All black and white, like the logic of the times.