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The whole #barbenheimer thing is peak crap of the internet. It's just another oddball cringe trend that people got swept up in because it was weird but when you look back at it, probably be more embarrassing than a fond memory.
I watched the Oppenheimer film. I think it was well casted and the story peaked further interest in the real history of events. I heard people cried at the end of Barbie, but I felt like going through Oppenheimer felt way more emotional. Living through atrocities that people put each other through is maddening and frustrating. Especially if you are helpless against it. And I know people will argue history on how at the time of WW2, they were faced with few choices. But that is one message of the film, it's all about the choices people make and how they impact others.
I lived through 9/11 and I knew my choice was not to do any invasion in the Middle East. Knowing the history of those wars seemed pretty clear to me that the war on terror was not going to make any benefit for the community at home. We now have 20 years of history put into that fiasco. Will this be a lesson learned. No because people just want to pretend it didn't happen. We may not have had a bombing event of that scale again but lives still have been lost to war since.
I'll just give it some more time when media looks to monetize that history some more and see those memes make the rounds. Yikes.
The other day I went to see Oppenheimer with some friends, and on the way out the friend who invited us goes “I thought it was a comedy” I want to know what trailer he saw
“Oppenheimer should at least represent Japanese voices” actual Japanese filmmakers have made dozens of movies about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including at least two anime films off the top of my head, that you would’ve bothered to watch if you actually cared about this beyond winning discourse points. Not to mention all the Japanese science fiction that is obviously inspired in some way by trauma over the bombing, including the entire genre of kaiju films. Do you really think there's anything those works haven't said that Christopher Nolan would add? Or maybe, in fact, the lack of focus there in Oppenheimer is The Point, since the real-life Manhattan Project (which the film is critical of) certainly wasn't consulting "Japanese voices"? Anyway, In This Corner of the World is a great film about the life of a young woman from Hiroshima in the waning days of WWII that you can currently rent for $1.99 on Amazon Prime. It's animated by the same studio that did Yuri!!! on Ice and it's based on a 3-volume manga that is also terrific and available both physically and digitally in English. If you actually want fiction that depicts "Japanese voices on the atomic bomb" I would start there. If you actually care about diverse perspectives in media you'd also care about the people making that media and look to what actual Japanese people are saying about this rather than expecting American and British creators to spoon-feed it to you.
The amount of PINKish in the last time regarding big cinematic releases:
2023 with 💗 Barbie and Oppenheimer 🩶 (💗Barbenheimer 🧡) - Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan
2024/25 with 🩷 Wicked 💚 - Jon M. Chu
Will it continue? …
Me seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer back to back
me omw to a barbie / oppenheimer double feature
Guyss yesterday I watched Oppenheimer with some of my friends and YOOOOOOO
I made sure to finish this piece before going to the cinema and I kinda succeded yippeee :D
God I just remembered how 2014 tumblr was so fucking funny and made a parody of Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons crossover??? So I decided to make one but for Barbenheimer and Animal Crossing + Doom.
Also remade and got inspired by the Bee Shrek test in the house edits so here you go:
Oppenheimer.
Iced coffee latte and current read. I kinda misplaced my retro coloured midliner highlighter somewhere at home.