Atomic Cafe

Atomic Cafe was an interesting movie that depicted human beings in a bad light and criticized them for constantly going to war. The stupidity of the Cold War was demonstrated in this movie as both sides started to use nuclear weapons and wound up hurting each other more. The movie showed this idea with clear allusions to the stupidity of believing that hiding in fallout shelters will save you from a nuclear weapon. Throughout the movie, we see the tests the government took to see the power of the nuclear weapons and the total destruction these weapons devastate. This movie shows us that if we start a war with these weapons, we will all die. However, when this movie was made, the message was supposed to be that of reassurance that fallout shelters can save you and your family. It's very interesting to see the massage of the film change throughout the years without the film being changed. This was definitely one of the est documentaries I have seen.

The Atomic Cafe

Thanks to this movie, I now understand better why every country has to have more and better atomic weapons than the other countries. The biggest power an atomic or hydrogen bomb has is inflicting fear, which is why each country wants more of them to intimidate other countries with their power. This movie greatly represents the fact that for people, war is just a game with no winner. No matter how much each side tries to fool itself, in the end, both sides end up losing everything they have. But because of human nature, we cant help but to go to war again with each other. America demonstrates its enormous power of atomic weapons over Japan and the consequences the country with less bombs has to face. This documentary teaches us about the aspect of war and atomic warfare in specific and the history our country had with atomic warfare and other countries.

Dr. Strangelove

This movie had a very nice balance between the serious mood of showing the Cold War and adding comedy to the not-so-serious scenes. This movie had some concepts that were very similar to Runaway train. For example, they both represent the idea that humans distract themselves in order to forget about the inevitable death. Both these movies show the everyday pleasures that people partake in to entertain themselves. However, while Runaway train had escaped convicts and action to portray this theme, Dr. Strangelove shows us this theme through the satirical humor of some of the characters. Another theme this movie greatly demonstrates is how war is completely useless as everybody ends up dead and there is no winner. Both the Russians and Americans are planning to survive the nuclear explosions underground, but even after they get out they will continue fighting. If that will happen, then there would have been no point of the nuclear war at the first point.