mirrors reality. Films have a way of taking what is or what could be, and turning it into art. Some films delve into deep topics, and the issues of their times, even if they do so in a lighthearted manner. The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a comedy that explores the natural conclusion of brinkmanship and the end result of the realist theory of international relations. The plot of the film is that a United States Air Force general orders B-52 bombers
TThe film Dr. StrangeLove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is satirical as a narrative, and I believe that the message of it was not to trust the officials in charge, and that the soldiers are the true heroes of war. One example of this is the illusion to sex throughout the film, which seems to be some of the main characters only concern. This idea shows up numerous times, starting with the solider looking at a Playboy magazine, the sex image of the secretary, the secretary calling
highlights that perhaps what seemed like the end, planted seeds of beginning. John Le Carre’s ‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’ and Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr Strangelove’ demonstrated this shift as a zeitgeist of the current dangers that were philosophised, politicised and what fostered religious and scientific meaning. To all the rationalists that ask, “How?” Well… let me show you. The Spy novel in 1963 intrigued, shocked and alarmed thousands of its readers. Why, because this was a story that tackled