Atomic Cafe, a film that moves within the world of the paranoia, that takes no new shots, merely forces us to look at what our predecessors thought were good ideas, is on the National Film Reigstry, and while other pieces express the paranoia well, like Dr. Strangelove and Duck & Cover, none make us realise exactly how much a part of our lives it was, how preoccupied we were, how out of our minds we managed to make ourselves to believe we could possibly be safe.
Atomic Cafe is a call for sanity, and one we never really heeded. We did not stop being paranoid. We simply made our paranoia work for us... or at least our politicians made it work for them.