difficult to understand, but still gets the point across

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2004)

Why have countries always competed to get the largest, most up-to-date, most destructive weapon? Is it our basic human instinct? But one would think that the human race is smarter than that. But obviously we aren't. Freud would say it IS our instinct. He would say it is penis envy. The idea of penis envy is that males must and will always be jealous of the guy with the bigger thing and he will want to be the guy with the even bigger thing. That is why Freud would have absolutely loved Dr. Strangelove. The movie has many Freudian overtones. Dr. Strangelove is a movie that seems to have good intention of pointing out this ridiculous love people have for the bomb. It could have been done better though. The acting just wasn't all that impressive and neither was the character development, but for a movie like this with the issue it is dealing with, the characters/acting isn't exactly the most important thing. It is hard to understand the acting and what the characters are saying, but Stanley Kubrick somehow did a good job of getting the message across. Dr. Strangelove has the qualities of a film and a flick. It could be considered a film because of the real issue, and a flick because of the humorous aspect of it. But there are also parts of this film that the average Joe may not understand. One may not understand the Freudian overtones and the dark humor of it all. This movie is accurately put in the dark comedy category because of the satirical way that the very real issue of nuclear weapons is portrayed. It is portrayed so dismissive an un-serious. It is good that there are movies like this that poke fun at how nuts society is. There should be a more modern version of this film released. The original is good, but if it were remade and some parts maybe re-thought, it could have a big impact on the way people view war and the insane competition that countries are in to see who could blow up the Earth faster.