A Sátira Política de Kubrick em Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

• Autores: Maria do Céu Martins Monteiro Marques
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 441-447
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper reads Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as a satire ofthe nuclear scare felt during the Cold War. The film intertwines facts and fiction to alert to the possibility of a nuclearaccident if the wrong person pushes the wrong button.Through one of the greatest comedies of the 20th century, we will try to explore Kubrick’s concern with the destiny ofhumanity owing to the threats it faces on a global scale and his pessimism in relation to the human behavior beforethe dangers in extreme situations. Similarly to what happens with the novel that led to the production of this film, RedAlert by Peter George, the argument unfolds in three different scenarios, which are not more than the paradigm ofthe lack of communication between the different political and military forces. At any moment, a nuclear war may betriggered by accident if decisions on important issues are in the wrong hands.