Dr. Strangelove: No Fighting In The War Room
By George Robbins
[usr 5]
The famous line which is the title of this post is just one of the paradoxical things about this film. The film contradicts itself all throughout and that is the point. Stanley Kubrick knew exactly what it was that he was doing when he made this film, and it is just him showing us how stupid human nature can be. Humans, all on their own, are paradoxical beings. We fight wars but at the same time want nothing but love ourselves. This comes across very candidly throughout the entire film and it makes you realize that humans really don’t know how to act. We are willing to do stupid things if it means getting what we want, even if it ends up hurting us anyway. This ends up being the thing in the film that is the most obvious, but people decide most of the time not to pay attention to it because it is the truth. No matter who it is everyone behaves contradictory to themselves on a regular basis. This is just human nature, but it is absolutely something that people should be aware of when they do anything.