"There's no fighting in the war room!"
Can ingenuity, a startling case of inefficient efficiency, and staunch discipline manufacture our own destruction? The hallmarks of our culture, of what makes us American, are these traits so dangerous? Sure, there are jabs at other cultures in Dr. Strangelove but ultimately it's the cowboy that goes down with the bomb.
I think I could write an essay dissecting this movie but I'll spare the blog-space. Man, Stanley Kubrick. I feel another director-themed movie marathon coming on. I signed up with a cheap-o two-a-month plan with netflix so it might be a slow-moving marathon.