How does this tie in with 'Oppenheimer'? Well, to my mind, Los Alamos was almost a Ken-dom. And with all the other avatars of Barbie, from 'President' Barbie to 'Nobel Prize Winner' Barbie, it also created a sense of women succeeding as a gender in 20th century. It identified and blew up the massive purchasing power of the female consumer. Since we find ourselves grappling and obsessing with them well into the 21st century, its obvious that even at a societal level, these themes from the previous century are lot to process, and remain relevant today.īarbie, with the subversive choice of Margot Robbie in the title role, sets up the Barbie doll phenomenon as something that inadvertently challenged patriarchy.
But interestingly, these are some crucial overlaps in their themes, which we may have missed if the two films had not released on the same day. Barbie talks about consumerism, and patriarchy, and the place of an iconic doll and the color pink in the understanding of feminism. Oppenheimer focuses on the atom bomb, and through it, on the human ability to unleash horrific destruction on its own, and mankind's absurd movement towards developing the capacity of destroying itself. Both have focused on some of biggest themes of the 20th century.
Here's mine.īarbie vs Oppenheimer: More Alike Than You Might Thinkįor me, even as the films are vastly different in every way, they are points at which they converge. Also, it would be fully understandable if each of us walked away from these films with a take of our own. After all, Greta Gerwig and Chris Nolan made these awesome movies for us. It gave me, and I'm guessing a lot of us, a lot to process.Īnd most of us are not experts, not film critics, not fully sorted about feminism and patriarchy, not historians, we have little or no knowledge about quantum physics or splitting the atom, nor are most of us psychologists or sociologists.Īnd yet, we should have our say. Watching Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie and Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr in Oppenheimer almost back to back was an experience.
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