Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movie • 1964 • Comedy
ReportAfter the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
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Dr. Strangelove. Hard to explain.
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CONstrained to a large room, no restraints
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There are references to shaving and an assumption that a character is shaving at one point.
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Some people are killed by explosions.
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Several people are wounded in the film however it is non-specific.
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a bomb is dropped from a plane and one of the pilots climbs on the bomb and goes down with it, presumably intentionally
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Yes, it is meant to be comical and thought-provoking rather than scary, imo
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Though they transport themselves there willingly, a character is held against his will in a room for a large part of the film.
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Not for police, but there is a lot of anti-communist propaganda depicted in this film.
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Not that would meet a diagnostic category. Maybe people said yes because of the characters being military? There's one mentally ill conspiracy theorist, but that's not PTSD-related.
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It's not represented
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SPOILER ALERT: mentally ill person tries to start a war and cause the death of many people in the process.
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Character dies by suicide, off camera you hear a gunshot.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Though no attacks, several characters experience a large amount of anxiety for some of the film.
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There are several shots of the inside of a very small plane interior with several people. A person is kept inside a (spacious) room against their will for some time.
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vanawesome
Self-inflicted gunshot off-screen. The body is never shown, other characters see and react to the body.
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At times e.g. machine gun firing
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Depends on your definition. There's a Sieg Heil salute done comically. Audience and other characters do not endorse/condone it.
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At times e.g. machine gun firing and bombs exploding
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a character is referred to as a "deviant prevert"
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One of the characters, Dr. Strangelove, is an ex-Nazi working for the U.S government. He accidentally refers to the president as "mein Führer", a title associated with Adolf Hitler, and he accidentally does the Nazi salute multiple times. It's implied he does not have control over that hand. Other than that, nothing else antisemetic is said and Dr. Strangelove is not shown in a positive light. Towards the end in response to the prospect of nuclear doomsday, Dr. Strangelove proposes to the president that they take several hundred thousand people deep underground to wait out the fallout for 93 years. He suggests that they selectively choose who to take underground. Because Dr. Stranglove is a former Nazi it can be assumed that his Nazism informs who he thinks should be taken to the mine shelters.
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A nazi salute is performed by one character.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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There is a discussion of eugenic policy near the end of the film that suggests filtering the population for physical attributes. This is not shown in a positive light.
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vanawesome
Innuendos and suggestive discussions only. PG-rated
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I mean, all women... (see innuendos) but no character is directly threatened or made uncomfortable from sexual objectification.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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I would say mood-wise it's more thought-provoking but, technically, yes.
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Some planes are described as being shot down, however there is nothing on-screen. There are several scenes of a plane being damaged mid-flight.
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There are several nuclear explosions at the end of the movie
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vanawesome
At one moment, you see a body with a trail of blood leading away from it on the ground. It is at a distance.
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Two groups in the army fight and there is lots of shooting. One of the characters uses a machine gun. It is not very graphic.
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