Sunday 23 July 2023

Barbie V Oppenheimer

I admit i don't fancy either of these films but as one is a garishly pink fantasy movie based on a toy doll while the other is a very real story about the man who made the world’s first atomic bomb so i know which one i would go out of my way to avoid, and it isn't the fantasy one.
Released on the same day, they are polar opposites of what could be called entertainment as entertaining as a film which covers the birth of a weapon so powerful and destructive that it could literally end life on Earth could be anyway.
The Barbie film, i guess from the adverts, is a light-hearted romp where everything is all shiny and pink and wrapped in shiny paper while Oppenheimer, again from adverts, is a cold, hard look at what happened in New Mexico and the grim future of humanity and the destructive power of nuclear weapons as witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with it's abhorrent death toll.
Maybe the whole point of the Oppenheimer film is less of his 'Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds' quote and more on his horrific reaction to the 250,000 innocent Japanese deaths his invention caused and led him to campaigned against his own weapon but either way, i have no interest in finding out
but if i was forced into a cinema, a lustrous fantasy romp through a glossy pretend world would be my choice every time.

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