I honestly didn’t know how I would approach writing about this movie because I didn’t enjoy it very much. The movie was funny and the jokes were enjoyable sometimes but, the political situation of the movie kind of hit home. In addition, I was not really able to follow plot and although some of the jokes were funny, it wasn’t something I would choose to watch. However, it was still a learning experience. I liked Ty’s powerpoint in the beginning and the little discussion that we had about President Eisenhower and President Kennedy. I was never a person who liked learning about war and battle tactics only because I really do not support most of the time. Regardless, it was interesting learning about the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD) and how the Cold War was a perfect example of it. Originally, I thought that MAD was probably coined during the Cold War because of the idea that there were finally weapons that could potentially wipe out an entire region and effect the surrounding areas of contact. When I thought about war later on, I found that notion to be completely silly because the idea has been in effect for centuries, if not millennia. The idea that it is better to leave another alone because you are aware that they are just as dangerous as you are has been around since the beginning. The term may not have been coined but, the idea has been in effect. It’s interesting how the best example of mutually assured destruction was the Cold War where there were probably many, many more battles that were just as striking. As I said, I usually don’t like these kinds of movies and the idea that an insane general was able to wipe out an entire region in Soviet Russia was unsettling. It’s easy to do such actions when you don’t think of people as people and, instead, refer to them as a statistic. I understand that this is a satire yet, it still gets me slightly upset and frustrated.