It’s incredibly likely that you’ve seen either Barbie or Oppenheimer by now. After all, it’s been nearly two months since the two blockbuster movies were released, and frankly it’s difficult to remember a time when there was so much buzz about a set of films.
The sheer number of articles and think-pieces written and shared in the run up to their release can partly be explained by the hilarious contrast between the two movies. First, we have Barbie: Greta Gerwig’s pastel pink feminist meditation on being a woman in the patriarchy, told via the story of Mattel’s most famous toy doll. Then, standing in the corner and broodingly smoking a cigar from under a wide-brimmed hat, we have Oppenheimer: Christopher Nolan’s very serious historical three-hour black and white number, about the creation of the atomic bomb.
