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Saw Barbie and Oppenheimer this week.
Oppenheimer was excellent with regard to it's technical aspects... Cinematography, casting, score, acting. But it's plot and message is basically trash. It's rather self-righteous and elitist, and soaking with Nietzschian ideology. Oppenheimer is a piece of shit but we are told his moral failings are the price to pay for his genius. He is the ubermensch and all us simpletons should look up to him as a prophet. His wife, who is an even bigger piece of shit than he is, redeems herself by pointing out Oppenheimer's one true flaw: his willingness to undergo humble self-sacrifice. Christopher Nolan casts scientists as the prophets of humanity, and everytime a scientist appears in the movie he makes sure to name drop. He wants us to know that he is smart and that these characters were important figures in world history that we should be fangirl about. But Nolan's own scientific understanding seems niave at best as evidenced by the flippant way his script dismisses the idea that causality underlies quantum physics, as if that was a basically foolish position that no one should take seriously.
Barbie, on the other hand, apparently got a bad rap as excessively feminist, when in reality one of the main messages of the movie is that a matriarchy would be as bad as a patriarchy, and that women shouldn't pursue equality to the point of diminishing malehood.
Oppenheimer was excellent with regard to it's technical aspects... Cinematography, casting, score, acting. But it's plot and message is basically trash. It's rather self-righteous and elitist, and soaking with Nietzschian ideology. Oppenheimer is a piece of shit but we are told his moral failings are the price to pay for his genius. He is the ubermensch and all us simpletons should look up to him as a prophet. His wife, who is an even bigger piece of shit than he is, redeems herself by pointing out Oppenheimer's one true flaw: his willingness to undergo humble self-sacrifice. Christopher Nolan casts scientists as the prophets of humanity, and everytime a scientist appears in the movie he makes sure to name drop. He wants us to know that he is smart and that these characters were important figures in world history that we should be fangirl about. But Nolan's own scientific understanding seems niave at best as evidenced by the flippant way his script dismisses the idea that causality underlies quantum physics, as if that was a basically foolish position that no one should take seriously.
Barbie, on the other hand, apparently got a bad rap as excessively feminist, when in reality one of the main messages of the movie is that a matriarchy would be as bad as a patriarchy, and that women shouldn't pursue equality to the point of diminishing malehood.
