Growing up, I heard tale of a movie that was so funny, so edgy when it came out that the military actually produced it’s own short films to counter the premise. That it was directed by Stanley Kubrick, one of the most famed directors of all time, I felt I must watch it.
I didn’t get it. Maybe it was the fact that I had seen “Fail Safe”, essentially the same film but without the tongue-and-cheek humor. Maybe it was because the threat of nuclear war was so greatly diminished after the fall of the Soviet Union (which happened when I was so young I really don’t even remember it happening) that I didn’t see the need to satirize it.