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Is Doctor Strangelove a Sci-Fi post-apocalyptic movie? Discuss (www.inverse.com)

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Subjects like nuclear armageddon are simply too important to be taken seriously.

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Yes

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dr Strangelove could be backstory for a post-apocalyptic society.

It would work for anything from A Canticle for Leibowitz to the Fallout games.

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I agree. It's a pre-apocalyptic movie that gets as close as possible to crossing that boundary, without doing so.

Though I would argue that there's not a hard cutoff between the pre-apocalypse and post-apocalypse. There is also a period where the apocalypse is actively occurring. So there's a pretty big barrier to it becoming post-apocalyptic.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

No, because it's about how the apocalypse happens, not what people do after.

There's also nothing sci-fi about it. The Russians could have built a doomsday device, they just didn't (as far as I know).

[–] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It's not "post" apocalyptic, so no. I'm not sure I'd call it sci-fi either, but it's more applicable.