Dr. Strangelove Case

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb is a film that was made to make one laugh but yet had truth about the Cold War era and the politics during that time. No matter how serious the situation got the director would always add a since of humor to help calm the nerves of viewers. I feel like the director decided to make this film the way he did because at the time the whole concept of the Cold war was new and frightening to the people at that time. He wanted the people to know what was really going on but not in a way that scared them into fearing the government. In the film the government and military were able to contact each other without much difficulty when they needed to for the most part and I feel like that is pretty relevant to today's government and military when they need to contact each other. Also in the film there is a struggle for global power that was present in the Cold War Era and even in the world today. In regard to the political situation then the movie makes me feel that government was on top of situations that could easily get out of hand and that they had a way to communicate with allied countries about situations that could become disastrous.

The director of the film wanted to inform the viewers about how the Governments around the world were messed up but in a way where the people could understand with a twist of comedy to keep things light. During the Cold War era there was constant miscommunication between the government and military, corruption, and the threat of the nuclear bomb. This is all depicted through the director's plot line of the miscommunication of dropping the nuclear bomb in Russia. The scenes at the War Room were a great representation of the government leaders then and even now. They all seem like they would do anything to keep from getting blamed but with so many secrets in the Military it was hard to win the battle without revealing something.

The director uses irony throughout the film. To list a few, the billboards on the army base say "Peace is our Profession" and when the President says "You can't fight in here, it's the War Room!" to wrestling Soviet ambassador and Buck Turgidson. This scene is quite ironic because they are in the middle the War Room fighting when outside there is an airplane headed to drop a nuclear bomb in Russia that is not meant to