Dr. Strangelove - Steffon Swenson
After watching Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, I was reminded of Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. Both are representations of black comedies in which the comical elements underscore the senselessness or futility of certain aspects of life. I think that the fact that this movie is still relevant today is astonishing. As stated in the Maland article, "black humor is pitched at the breaking point where moral anguish explodes into a mixture of comedy and terror, where things are so bad you might as well laugh . . ." I think this how some people in the US feel with our current government. Some of the decisions that are made are simply laughable. A similar theme is reflected in Catch-22 and the movie; ‘the only way to survive such an insane system is be insane’.