Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove is a satire of the Cold War and MAD. It is one of the darkest comedies I have ever watched and I give credit to Kubrick for turning the end of the world into a comical movie. Anyway, the satire of the Cold War is depicted, especially, through the war room, which seems ridiculous in that the arguments between the Russian ambassador and the president are ridiculous and meaningless. There is a strong connection between sex and war, constantly referenced in the film. For example, the long cigars, airplanes, explosions, the coca cola, the essence, the dear john on the bomb, and the random comments throughout the film. Dr. Strangelove, the character, is a representation of a mad scientist, who could perhaps be one from history. He represents the dangers of technology and the detrimental effects on society, primarily destruction. At the end he mentions the 10 women to 1 man, another sexual inference. This is perhaps strange love, sex used as a process in a factory to produce offspring. I don't really understand why Dr. Strangelove constantly refers to the president as Mein Fuhrer. It seems as if he keeps messing up because he was once a Nazi. Perhaps it is a connection between Hitler and the president as well as the Holocaust to a nuclear genocide.