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.