I find it truly amazing how human communication works.  The truth is that not only do people take into consideration what you say but also how you say and what you do not say.  Sometimes what is implied is heard louder as opposed to the words you actually say.  The movie we watched in English the other day, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Love the Bomb, held a lot of implications.  At the beginning of the movie we see two planes in mid-air, one of the planes is refueling the other while in the background soft music plays.  This may seem like a very strange scene to put at the beginning of a movie because some may not understand the deeper implications of this scene.  This scene is supposed to exemplify America's love affair with the nuclear bomb. In another scene we are given the explanation as to why there is a British officer on an American base but instead of having the characters just say why the character is there they put into the dialogue that just because he was there through the officer exchange program does not mean that he was exempt from following the rules.  This is a way of telling people what they need to know without coming right out and saying, hey you need to know this little bit of information so here is what we need to tell you.  This can be used in life as well.  Instead of telling someone that you do not like them you can instead just use your body language and your actions to let them know that you do not like them.  This is also shown in the movie.  Take into consideration the scenes in the war room.  The representative from Russia is getting serious negative vibes from the womanizing American General. We can obviously see that the American General is uncomfortable with the Russian Ambassador being present in the war room.  This particular film is full of implied and unspoken dialogue.  I think this was an overall really good movie, although sometimes a little too out there for my own tastes I think most people would really enjoy watching the movie the way I did. I found many of the scenes very amusing.  A lot of the humor was subtle and I am sure that some of the jokes went right over my head but the ones that I happend to catch were pretty funny. I thought the scene when the British officer was in the office getting shot at with the American officer was hilarious because of the acting.  The actors did a really good job in that scene and I really do not know how they prevented themselves from cracking up, especially when the American officer went into his monolague about water and the communists. I feel like the writers of this movie did a good job with showing humor that was not purely in word form.  A lot of the things that you saw, such as the writing on the bombs and when the pilot changes from his helmet to his cowboy hat and later on rides the bomb like it was a bull were really amusing scenes.  I think most of the characters were well developed and each person had their own quirks which really made the charcters come alive. Dr. Strangelove had his odd way of speaking and his constant inability to control his right arm, which in fact is a neurological disease nick named after Dr. Strangelove.  The American officer who was having an affair with his secretary was all hung up on beautiful women and bombing things, which I guess makes him the idealistic "macho man". I liked many parts of this movie, such as I have mentioned in the above paragraphs but like I said before sometimes the humor was over my head.  In some cases I didn't catch all the subtleties in the actions or in what was being said.  In the end I think the movie was a good one, I would watch this movie again but I would never waste the money to buy a copy of Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Love the Bomb.

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