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Rating: Does the system out itself?
This feeling of confessing to a situation that can get out of hand, and moreover without really knowing why, is at the very heart of the film. We all know Bigelow is a master when it comes to tension, and here she plunges us into 20 harrowing minutes through the various perspectives of power in its many forms (political, military, media…) and of the individuals caught up in it, with all their fragility and inadequacy in the face of the situation. And over everything, the madness that has been sold to us for decades as the security of our world. Truly, Strangelove peeks out from the halls of power, inspected moment by moment as we wait for a decision to be made. We enter into the inner sanctum, the most delicate of mechanisms…and in the end? In the end, it comes down to a single person who must decide…for everyone. And that, perhaps, is the craziest madness of all…
But maybe that decision is not so crucial after all—before too long, the system itself will choose, maybe with the help of AI, relieving us of the ethical dilemmas that tell us: “the choice is between surrender and suicide”. And that says a lot about the dead end in which we’ve trapped ourselves…
Yet certain doubts arise: produced by Netflix, shot with an obviously massive budget, with scenes set inside places we imagined were off-limits…if this kind of thing is put out there by those who hold 1/3 of US Internet traffic, what kind of operation is it? Maybe it’s a representation so implausible or so chilling that it pushes away any suspicion that we really are playing with “a house filled with dynamite”?
Really good: highly recommended
(Recestalker 16/10/2025)
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