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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Much as I enjoy the movie, it is not culturally universal. Back in the late '70, I went with my roommate who was from South America along with a bunch of other college students. All the Americans came out laughing our heads off, and the South American was terrorized! How could we laugh at the world being destroyed? When I pointed out he was currently in a top 50 nuke target (Austin had Bergstrom Air Force Base at the time, a major tactical nuke weapon storage area.) and most of us had grown up under such a terror, he turned white as a sheet. Nobody had to worry about such things in South America....
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Good point, but I grew up in the US, thinking I'd probably never see 30 years old because of The Bomb. (I'm 42 now.) I've seen
Fail Safe,
Atomic Café,
The Day After, and
Threads, as well as more fanciful treatments like
War Games. I really should see
Dr. Strangelove and it's actually rather odd that I haven't seen it all the way through yet.