In Reply to: Masterpiece is too big a word, it presumes too many things posted by Victor Khomenko on August 26, 2009 at 19:14:45:
...and it works best by exaggerating characters and situations up to a point close to distortion, what makes them even more recognisable...
Or maybe it bites too close to your bone? Your cybermisbehaviour, and the character you portray of yourself, certainly wouldn´t be misplaced if in this film...
Kubrick was a true master, and "Dr. Strangelove" is one of his masterpieces, much better than "Barry Lyndon" indeed. And it will still be alive and fresh as long as there are patrioteer kooks thumbing their hollow chests around...
BF
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Follow Ups
- A satire -- as "Dr. Strangelove" is -- is the artistic equivalent of "reductio ad absurdum" in Logic... - orejones 03:56:03 08/29/09 (1)
- RE: OH Boy! Yes it is a satire and you are the satyr of politic. - patrickU 06:03:15 08/30/09 (0)