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Human fall flat easter eggs9/22/2023 IT’S AN EVENT – one of the more successful blockbusters in recent Hollywood history. I’m still learning so much about my life partner every day. I was convinced going into today that this equation would be the other way around. And it wasn’t as relaxing as you might think because those wheels of mine were turning for 2 more of those 5 hours than I’d expected.īut alas, I’m tired after spending my most wonderful birthday with Sarah, who has differing views on Barbie, but very similar ones on Oppenheimer. But it was a long day: five hours in a recliner at the theatre (oh how hard your life is). There is just so much to explore I have so much to say. However, I think Barbie now has my wheels turning faster than the story about the man who gave us the power to destroy humanity. I came to the movie thinking that, unlike Oppenheimer, which I knew would get my wheels spinning a mile a minute, I’d be able to just sit back, relax, and enjoy the entertainment relatively mindlessly. I also applaud her for the cinematography and the Stanley Kubrick references (I should touch on this again later). I applaud her for her nuance-she’s a Nuancer -and her wit and her timing and her storytelling prowess and her ability to go meta and deep on a movie about the Mattel doll, even though there are some aspects of it that didn’t work for me. But Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed it, doesn’t editorialize so far one way or another that she puts the narrative in a simple box. The themes it deals with, oh so artfully, are complex, bordering on controversial. The film is witty and funny and, most of all, smart. In fact, I didn’t expect to be blown away by this film at all. Barbie, however, blew me away in a way I wasn’t expecting. Oppenheimer blew me away in the way that I was expecting. These are really, truly, fabulous films that surprisingly have a couple things in common. So much so that it’s not that I’m at a loss of words, but that I have a surplus of them. OPPENHEIMAR and BARBIE both lived up to the hype. Click here for more information on this series.
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