Atomic Cafe

One thing I really enjoyed about this movie was the humor. I think it so effctively made fun of the mindsets of the people during this time period. All the preperations they made for an atomic war and especially that whole "Duck and Cover" routine were so hilarious simply because the people of the time took it so seriously while we stand here laughing the the madness of their actions. I also highly doubt that if a nuclear war ever did occur that the casualties would be very great and that we would not simply have "evacuation procedures" and that we would not be able to save our people if an atomic bomb ever landed. This movie also exposes how power hungry the human race is and how crazy we can get in desperate times. We went on a crazy rampage and kept creating atomic bombs to outnumber those of the russians and went as far as to create the hydrogen bomb. There is no purpose for these bombs for everyone is well aware that the usage of these bombs would mean the end of the world. The purpose of them is purely for show and I don't see the purpose in them. Instead of both countries bluffing with using the bombs they should just have come to an aggreement where the decide to cieze the building of the bombs and put it to a standstill.

The Hydrogen Bomb

I have always wondered why America procceded to make the Hydrogen Bomb, but after seeing this documentary I understand that it is a neccesity to consistently keep improving. I have always wondered why creating more atomic bombs than everyone else in the world wouldn't be suffice enough to scare them all off, but I now understand the power and the way a country can rule another due to having a power that they simply do not have a defense for. After watching America stomp all over Japan, I understood how ridiculous it is for other countries to fight powers as strong as atomic and hydrogen bombs if they don't possess any of their own and how truly strong a weapon they can be. I also really like how this documentary portrays war to simply be a game that we all play because in reality thats what it actually is. Two sides fighting and only one can win. This outlook on war may be synnical, but it is very accurate and lets face it, its a much more pleasant way of looking at it than as a full out man slaughter.

Dr.Strangelove

I found it very hard to believe that the movie was originally made to be a serious movie about the Cold War because of the large amount of ridiculous things that go on in it. There are only so many serious scenes throughout the whole movie and even in the serious ones such as the speech the pilot gave to the rest of his crew ( might I mention he was wearing a cowboy hat as well), the speech was a joke and I don't think it was meant to be scene as an actually moving thing. I think that the beggining of the movie was very approriate with the bomb representing a big penis. After all, all the Civil War was was a battle over who will give up first, and the reason each side found it so hard to give up was because of the great amount of pride and "strongso" they were trying to show. This is the problem with most males and I found it very interesting how the director chose to show this in the opening scene. And that wasn't the only time the penis was mentioned. It was also referenced when the pilot fell off along with the atomic bomb. I think this was representative of an erection and once again was meant to ridicule the "masculinity" that America possesed. I didn't really like the character of Dr.Strangelove because I felt like he had 1) very corny jokes, 2) I thought the arm thing was pretty stupid, and 3) I didn't excactly understand the purpose of him in the overall movie. I'm sure he represented some real life guy that was sent over from Germany to help the Americans, but I thought the movie could have easily done without him, and he certaintly shouldn't have been the name of the movie.