Reaction to Fail Safe (Patreon)

Published:

2022-10-31 15:18:14

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2023-01

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Anonymous

Part of the reason you've never heard of Fail Safe is that it came out the same year as Dr. Strangelove. I thought they were adaptations of the same novel, but they're actually based on separate books, so similar that one author (and Kubrick) sued the other. The lawsuit may have had something to do with the success levels. Anyway, Strangelove won the attention and accolades and Fail Safe remains a hidden gem. This movie is rad. A doomsday horror film from the middle of the nuclear era, commenting on the existential terror of nuclear war *and* of ideological fanaticism like Matthau's professor character shows. He predicts that the Russians will mechanically follow some kind of algorithm or a dummy version of Marx's words that the professor imagines. Meanwhile, the most machine-like characters we get to see in the movie are Americans wrapped up in capitalism/nationalism (and, as you point out, the whole movie is about the fail-safe system proceeding as planned). He's technically right about the economy at the end but it's fucking hilarious that he's gravely speaking about sorting through the rubble to rescue corporate records. He's the other side of the coin he described. Willing to destroy the world for the sake of some bullshit economic theory

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