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Tonight's major motion picture premieres were a Birthday Barbenheimer Special!
First up: Oppenheimer (2023) because Lynda Carter, aka Wonder Woman, asserted on Twitter that this should be watched before Barbie as "he created the world in which she lives"; and who am I to argue with that? It's very good indeed. I remember a lot of discourse last year in which people asserted that it should have made more of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with one bloke even complaining that it wasted its final hour on the political matters affecting Oppenheimer's later career rather than those matters. I can only assume these people had misread the title and thought the film was called The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Its Deployment Against Japan, and the Consequences Thereof; but I made sure to read it carefully and it's definitely called Oppenheimer. So it makes sense that it's about him and not stuff that happened thousands of miles away from him, that he wasn't involved with, and over which he had no control, as is made very clear in the film
After that, something completely different… or is it? Barbie (2023) starts out seeming like a lighthearted toy spinoff, but soon reveals itself as an acerbic satire on modern society - though still fun! The association of the two films because of their simultaneous release dates last year may have started out as an online joke about the distinct contrast between the subjects of the two films, but maybe they're closer in spirit than one would expect… and maybe Lynda Carter had a point?
Goodnight all
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