#Oppenheimer my ass

[kramlabs]

[go-maccha]

quick doodles while watching oppenheimer

[gojuo]

barbenheimer for people whose IQ is in the double digits at the very least

[urdreamgirls-dreamgirl]

i saw that review on letterboxd of all the rhetorical questions for barbie and like… the more i think abt it, the more i’m certain that the review’s author fundamentally misunderstood the film. barbie land is not a utopia in the way that adults would think abt a utopia, like the author seems to imply… barbie land is canonically shaped by little girls playing with their dolls. that’s why we see a supreme court. thats why there are nobel prizes and authors and lawyers (also because that’s how the toys are marketed… would there be a mermaid in ur utopia??? there would be in mine!). that’s why barbie and ken don’t necessarily know what a boyfriend and girlfriend are “meant” to do (not to mention that the author’s assumption that sex is fundamental to a romantic relationship is problematic at best). that’s why barbie is indifferent to ken (i personally had the life size barbie and my sister had the barbie dream house—we had the working woman barbie game, i had the genie barbie gameboy game, we had countless barbie dolls; we didn’t own a single ken doll lol). barbie land is a world created by and for little girls as they play with their dolls (she says in a comment on the original post “don’t little girls play with their dolls in a sexual way?” and yeah, sure, some do. but i didn’t and i’m sure there are others who didn’t… just like there are some girls who completely mutilated their own dolls and made them into horrifying creatures)… that’s why stereotypical barbie starts having an existential crisis—because a grown woman begins to play with her doll again and starts reshaping barbie land… we, as the audience, are meant to understand this as an outlier to how barbie land is canonically created. the author also calls ken “crass” and “slovenly”… maybe after he builds the patriarchy in barbie land he becomes “crass” but i wouldn’t call him slovenly at any point in the film (i suppose this is just semantics tho).

also, please stop saying that barbie land is a reversal of the real world. it isn’t, even if that may have been the filmmakers intentions. again, barbie is indifferent to ken. she does not abuse him, she does not treat him like he exists to service her by cooking or cleaning or providing other favors for her… barbie does not oppress ken in the way that men oppress women in the real world (we have no idea if he owns property or where he lives and she doesn’t seem to particularly care—extremely different from the fact that women couldn’t have their own bank accounts or credit cards, get a mortgage on their own or divorce their husbands through no fault divorce until the second half of the 20th century in the us… within a lot of our mothers and grandmothers lifetimes!!!!) and it is a complete disservice to conflate or equate the two. we actually see barbie drawing clear boundaries around her time and space in regards to ken—this is not a reversal of misogyny as women and girls experience it in the real world, by any stretch of the imagination.

is the film perfect or revolutionary or radical? of course not. it was produced by major studios and corporations in hollywood. of course the barbie movie is a fucking commercial for barbie, like… to expect anything different is just extremely dumb on your part if u saw the trailer, saw the marketing, saw the interviews, bought a ticket, and sat ur ass in the theater, like be fuckin serious. but don’t do women and girls a disservice by discrediting the world and thoughts and ideas it could open up for them by seeing themselves be taken seriously on screen in a major summer blockbuster with stupid fucking questions because u want to feel superior to everyone else because YOU and ONLY YOU see through the capitalist marketing of lipstick pop girlboss feminism (especially when juxtaposed with the way the female characters are treated in oppenheimer, which we cannot help but compare to the barbie film with the viral marketing of barbenheimer).

[minimoniii]

and they’re boyfriends

[blackandwhlteaesthetlc]

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[vampiregerard]

im bisexual in a way where i usually only date women/nb ppl but i get super obsessed with a random celebrity man every once in a while. and then i watch all of his films and then project gayness onto all of his characters and it’s almost like he is an oc to me. or something. hope this helps shape ur perception of me <3

[henrysglock]

am i the only one that’s just viscerally uncomfortable with the rise of AI. like maybe it’s just from years of watching AI horror/war movies, but…something about it just scares me ngl :/

[realsparrowboy]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY IS HE STANDING LIKE THAT

[kramlabs]

Remember when a Nazi German Submarine delivered Uranium 235 and infra-red atomic fuses to the United States during World War 2?

….and then the most amazing kwinky dink happened:

2 weeks later: Oak Ridge suddenly had enough weapons grade uranium for a test (June 1945)

2 months later: Trinity (July 1945)

3 months later: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)

:

Dr. Heinz Schlicke was a passenger onboard U-234 and he showed the Americans how to use the atomic German infra red proximity fuses that were also on board the sub.

H/T: JPF

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Also just a coincidence I’m sure:

FDR “dies suddenly” at age 63, April 12 1945

Three Days later: U-234 begins delivery of uranium/atomic fuses to America, April 15, 1945

[wokeuplaughing]

just beginning to settle for me how reflective of our culture it is that the current biggest meme online is the fact that barbie and oppenheimer coincidentally come out on the same day. barbie is a multi million dollar plot by matel both to sell more products and to increase media engagement since that's where the future is for advertising their products and oppenheimer is a dramatization of the only time nukes were ever used in war that targeted two civilian cities and killed thousands upon thousands of innocent people from the perspective of the man who developed it and viewed it as a necessary evil to end a war that was basically already over. girlbosses and bombs! isn't everyone having fun

[ephemeral-winter]

oh i see i think the reason i did not enjoy oppenheimer as a film* aside from the script that was determined to hit you over the head with its underbaked moral reasoning and the obvious oscarbait biopic of it all is because it is so emphatically a film that demonstrates what the male gaze is as per mulvey's og theory. and i simply am just not interested in, like, any of that

*as a filmgoing experience i loved barbenheimer because i got to go to the movies all day with my friends while wearing a little outfit and i bought a diet coke that cost me eight american dollars and that is so beautiful to me

[josis-teacup]

150 pages into Babel by R. F. Kuang and it feels like nobody explained "show don't tell" to her

[azuree1733]

Cillian Murphy is so fine I was getting lost in those eyes 🥵

[sleeplessinseattlee]

feeling like absolute shit. woke up had two cups of coffee and went to oppenheimer at noon. ate popcorn and have eaten nothing else today. also feeling slightly dizzy not sure if that’s the movie or something else or a combination. so anyways

[allright]

gojo would be the one so hyped to see the barbie movie