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In Reply to: Dr. Strangelove...so what is wrong with me? posted by Bas Horneman on March 27, 2005 at 14:44:06:
It is a very good film that the popular opinion tends to present as some completely unique monument. I suppose if you saw it during the Cold War, it would have resonated stronger, but all that mundane stuff should not really matter.
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His judgement are God like....He is so good to you, Victor. So good. His mildness is so far above....
There are certain lines I would never cross, and I think that you've just alluded to one of them! ;^)
Perhaps I would have found DS to be a "great" film if I had viewed it during its (original) theatre days.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.I s'pose you don't remember LBJ's campaign ad (with the little girl picking petals of the daisy, the countdown, and the nuclear explosion) either.
I can understand its audacious place in history, beyond that, I don't get it. It's my suspicion that most fans enjoy it vicariously through that prism.
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