{"id":1981883,"date":"2023-07-25T04:13:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T08:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unlike-barbie-oppenheimer-lets-us-decide-who-the-villains-are\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T04:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T08:16:28","slug":"unlike-barbie-oppenheimer-lets-us-decide-who-the-villains-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unlike-barbie-oppenheimer-lets-us-decide-who-the-villains-are\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; allows us to choose the villains, unlike &#8216;Barbie&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funlike-barbie-oppenheimer-lets-us-decide-who-the-villains-are%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1981883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><strong>\u201cBarbieheimer\u201d weekend went off with a $235.5\u2062 million bang. Or did it \u200dgo up\u2062 in a fiery mushroom cloud? Well, that\u200c depends on who\u2063 you are \u200band which of the\u200d blockbuster movies you saw.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBarbie\u201d reviews were\u2064 a \u2064mixed bag. Critics loved it. Most viewers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/barbie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apparently<\/a> loved it too \u2014 except conservatives. While some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1683194681985757188?t=pI1asqQE7mPKXUBDFCm6lw&#038;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">didn\u2019t \u200bhate it<\/a>, others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ynU-wVdesr0&#038;ab_channel=BenShapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> it as \u201ca flaming piece of dogsh-t.\u201d As\u2063 Federalist senior contributor Rich Cromwell <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/24\/barbie-delivers-more-lectures-than-laughs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> \u2064in these pages, the \u201cBarbie\u201d movie is \u2062\u201cmore lectures\u2064 than laughs\u201d and a total letdown: \u201c\u2018Barbie\u2019 is a two-hour \u2063grind through a litany of complaints about how the patriarchy is keeping the ladies down.\u201d Among other complaints, the much-anticipated \u201clife \u200cin plastic\u201d feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/barbie-film-forgets-core-audience-favor-trans-agenda-gender-themes-christian-movie-site-warns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretended<\/a> \u200ba man was a woman, \u200cpitted the \u200csexes against each other, and told audiences full of girls that it\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2023-07-23\/barbie-america-ferrera-monologue?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">literally impossible to be a woman<\/a>.\u201d In other words, it left no doubt\u200b about who the \u201cbad guy\u201d is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2023\/07\/21\/barbie-review-margot-robbie-and-ryan-gosling-smash-the-patriarchy-in-greta-gerwigs-charming-comedy\/?sh=b72f6ccc7621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the patriarchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1449393751\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f836437ced498fff12b766420ce80827 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f836437ced498fff12b766420ce80827\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s apparently little dispute about the quality of \u201cOppenheimer.\u201d<\/strong> Boasting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/oppenheimer_2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">94 percent<\/a> on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dana-loesch-plans-to-continue-monetizing-the-hate-with-her-renewed-radio-contract\/\" title=\"Dana Loesch Plans To Continue \u2018Monetizing The Hate\u2019 With Her Renewed Radio Contract\">audiences alike<\/a>, \u200bthe \u200cChristopher Nolan masterpiece is, \u2064in\u2062 a word, magnificent. Made for an immersive\u200d Imax experience, the World War II biopic about the \u201cfather of the atomic bomb\u201d wows with stunning \u200bmicroscopic visuals, compelling characters, remarkable costumes and cosmetics, meticulous pacing, believable sin and secrecy, a moving score, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/limousine-liberal-klobuchar-spent-6k-on-beverly-hilton-stay-limo-service-for-hollywood-fundraiser\/\" title=\"Limousine Liberal? Klobuchar Spent K on Beverly Hilton Stay, Limo Service for Hollywood Fundraiser\">star-studded cast<\/a>. Even in sold-out\u2064 theaters, you could hear a pin drop in the wind-up \u2062to the Trinity test \u2014 a beautiful scene worth all the wait and hype.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps most moving and memorable about the film is the moral conflict and ultimate ambiguity \u200cabout who exactly are \u201cbad guys.\u201d \u2064Some are more obviously\u2064 so, of course. Communism is clearly a foe, \u200das are the Soviets, Nazis, Japanese, and\u2063 the rest of America\u2019s World War II\u200d enemies. Marital infidelity, too, doesn\u2019t escape scrutiny as a destructive and deadly \u2064evil. Even the politically motivated deep state \u2014 along with kangaroo courts and other deniers of due process \u2014 receive\u2062 a fair \u2064flogging in scenes reminiscent of our political moment. <\/p>\n<p>But unlike in \u201cBarbie,\u201d a singular villain in \u201cOppenheimer\u201d was less clear \u2014 and decidedly so. I left the theater with more questions than answers. Yes, J. Robert Oppenheimer was a victim of McCarthyism, but \u2064does that let him off the hook for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/19\/it-is-completely-reasonable-to-wonder-if-oppenheimer-was-a-soviet-spy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evidence of espionage<\/a>? He was right \u2063to end \u2064his extramarital trysts with Jean Tatlock, but \u200dwas he wrong to feel doubt or responsibility after her suicide? How about the ethics of civilian \u200bcasualties in a just war? If a husband\u2019s world-shaping work keeps him absent from his home \u2014 and possibly contributes to his wife\u2019s alcoholism or abuse of \u2063his children \u2014 is his work noble or \u2064neglectful? And what\u2062 to do with the complex\u2063 Lewis Strauss?<\/p>\n<p>To that end, \u201cOppenheimer\u201d viewers were likely taken by the striking shift from\u2063 color to monochrome \u200band back again \u2014 and the stark physicality of\u2064 an aged, black-and-white Robert Downey Jr. But Nolan wasn\u2019t just having a Victor Fleming moment. His colorization technique had apparently more to do with depicting the human perception\u2063 of morality than establishing time and place. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3befffefb8c20bc1bf8f56acd877fa19 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3befffefb8c20bc1bf8f56acd877fa19\"><\/div>\n<p>Nolan <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oppenheimer-christopher-nolan-0f8c1fdc4a358decee6105cac91a90ae?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_source=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> this artistic device to The Associated Press. \u201cI knew that I\u200b had two timelines that we were running in the film,\u201d he said. \u201cOne is in color, and that\u2019s Oppenheimer\u2019s subjective experience. That\u2019s the bulk \u2062of the film. Then the other is a \u2064black and white timeline. It\u2019s a more objective view of his story from a different character\u2019s [Strauss\u2019s] point of \u2064view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus while some parts of \u200bthe film are\u2062 intended to convey a clear picture of the way things are, the bulk of the three-hour story is told from the \u2062view of the brilliant protagonist who isn\u2019t likely to see anything clearly but \u200bthe science. After all, his moral compass is clearly colored by competing interests in lust, politics, and his field, if not in war. <\/p>\n<p>It \u2063goes without saying a movie based on\u200b the Manhattan Project\u200b probably has more potential to probe the depths of human nature than one based on Mattel. But when filmmakers decide to wade into morality, they should know \u2062that \u200cmovies are more \u2062powerful when they implore viewers to think for themselves rather than\u200b telling them what to believe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3771f33c32797853558ef676d9a45393 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3771f33c32797853558ef676d9a45393\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Barbieheimer&#8221; weekend was a massive success, raking in $235.5 million. However, opinions on the blockbuster movies varied. Critics and most viewers enjoyed it, except for conservatives. The reviews were a mixed bag, leaving it up to personal preference whether it was a triumph or a disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":1981884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}