A primeira vez que ouvi a Vera Lynn cantar “We’ll meet again” foi no fim do filme de Stanley Kubrick “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”, quando o impensável acontece.
Só um génio como o Kubrick poderia ter escolhido uma canção tão certa e, no entanto, tão amarga.
The Doomsday Machine is triggered and the world is destroyed. A chorus of H-bomb mushroom clouds [unclassified stock newsreel footage from 1963 including the original Trinity test in 1945, other atmospheric explosions, and the Bikini Island blast] spread as multiple explosions detonate around the world [endless orgasms?], annihilating and causing oblivion by radioactive fallout to millions of people. The popular, comforting WW II tune “We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day” [originally recorded by singer Vera Lynn] plays in incongruous juxtaposition:
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day
Keep smiling through, just like you always do
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say hello to the folks that I know
Tell them I won't be long
They'll be happy to know, that as you saw me go
I was singing this song...