West Seattle Meaningful Movies: ‘Dr. Strangelove’

When:
January 6, 2018 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2018-01-06T18:30:00-08:00
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Where:
Neighborhood House High Point
6400 Sylvan Way SW
Seattle, WA 98126
USA
Cost:
Free

This year at the West Seattle Meaningful Movies, a number of neighborhood organizations are showing a movie of their choice. Here’s a chance to get to know West Seattle Neighbors for Peace and Justice!

On Saturday, January 6,
West Seattle Neighbors for Peace and Justice present

“Dr. Strangelove,” directed by Stanley Kubrick (1964) and starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, is a comedy ridiculing the nuclear-war plans of the United States and the Soviet Union. An insane general launches a first strike against the Soviet Union, and a President and his advisors and generals try to call the launch back. In many ways this film is too close to being an actual documentary. It eerily resembles our nuclear predicament today. Despite widespread concern about Trump’s mental stability, he remains in control of the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal.

93 minutes

Good news! The United Nations has passed a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It is the first legally binding international agreement to completely eliminate nuclear weapons. (The United States has not yet signed on.) And on December 10, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize–in part for its work to help pass this treaty. West Seattle Neighbors for Peace and Justice are a part of the ICAN coalition.

After the movie Lilly Adams of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (also part of the ICAN coalition), will share ideas for how we can move toward a nuclear-weapons-free world.

6:30 – doors open for refreshments and social time
7:00 – movie, followed by optional facilitated discussion

At High Point Neighborhood House
6400 Sylvan Way SW, Seattle 98126
Bus numbers 21 and 128

NO CHARGE, but donations gratefully received.

3 Replies to "West Seattle Meaningful Movies: 'Dr. Strangelove'"

  • Jon January 4, 2018 (9:27 pm)

    The best film ever made, in my opinion; and an otherwise fun event discolored by someone’s tired personal political agenda.

    You can’t ever just do something because it’s fun anymore, I suppose. What a shame.

    I encourage anyone who hasn’t seen it to at least watch it from the comfort of your home; just don’t steal your overpriced sodas, or else you’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company.

    • WSB January 4, 2018 (9:31 pm)

      The “Meaningful Movies” series is ABOUT politics, social change, etc. Usually they show documentaries – some of the past screenings are listed here:

      https://meaningfulmovies.org/neighborhoods/west-seattle/

      • Jon January 5, 2018 (4:58 pm)

        Yes, and my croutons baking in the oven reflect the Trump administration’s foreign policy, too. Everything around us is suddenly an allegory or “eerily similar”.  How did Kubrick ever have enough foresight to predict Trump!? Amazing! #RESIST!

        It’s also not at all reflective of the film (spoiler!), as President Merkin Muffley (get it?) is mostly weak-willed, cowardly, well-meaning, inoffensive, and overwhelmed by his reliance and insistence on adherence to government bureaucracy. The film is also about humanity’s universal failure to “see the bigger picture”; man’s hubris, as it were, in assuming that we have a plan to succeed in any scenario — even so much as to plan for a “mineshaft gap”.

        But one must’ve get too ‘deep’ in internet comments…

        Look, it’s obviously “eye of the beholder” when it comes to artistic interpretation of films; the point is that all anybody sees or talks about is Trump and their hatred in regards to him. It’s annoying, intellectually dishonest, small-minded, needlessly divisive, and many of us (whatever “us” means to anyone, I guess) are tired of hearing about every armchair psychologists’ diagnosis re: his mental health, et cetera. Sometimes, you really are just seeing what you want to see.

        But, hey — enjoy the event! And thanks for reminding me to watch my favorite film again! :)

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