Monday, May 11, 2009
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When we talk about nuclear war, we're talking about bombs, radiation, destruction, chaos, and paranoia. These two movies, “Dr. Strangelove” and “Fail-Safe”, have similar stories but thats about it. On one hand we have “Dr. Strangelove” who laughs about what we should be concerned and worried about, and the film transforms this horrible idea about the bomb and massive destruction into something funny and peculiar that we should accept as part of our normal life. In this film all the characters seems to be mentally insane. On the other hand, we have “Fail-Safe” that, from a very serious point of view, exposes the problem of nuclear bombs. There are no jokes in this film. Both movies show that even though it seems improbable that the USA and the USSR would destroy each other, they were absolutely capable of doing it. Although both of these films talk about the same thing, they approach the nuclear bomb problem completely different. This is why I find it odd that they would be suing one another, because they are so different, all they do is show the different sides of the same problem.
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I think it's interesting that you mentioned the difference in each movie's take on the nuclear situation. I didn't think about that until I read it here. However I don't think that the movies showed different sides of the same problem, I think they showed the same side but with different feeling.
ReplyDeleteI also did not think of the movies' perspectives on the nuclear situation during the cold war. I also agree with Monica. I think that they showed the same perspective on nuclear war but in a very different manor. On one hand, "Fail-Safe" shows machine error starting a nuclear war that turns out disastrous. On the other hand, "Dr. Strangelove" shows human error starting the war that also turns out disastrous. So I think that both movies disagree with nuclear war, just show it in different ways.
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