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Oppenheimer. Was it a good movie? Absolutely, a dark, sometimes in full color, movie is never so bad. Beautifully shot and masterfully composed, including the music which sets the tone, it is a great piece of art work. I have no idea if it is faithful for the history or that its portrayal of everyone, including Oppenheimer himself is the right one. However, in my opinion, thats besides the point of the film

Was Oppenheimer an evil man? Thats my positing of the issue. A man whove invented the atom bomb… that would be a nice headline for every newspaper. I think he wasnt. And still is not. Was he responsible for the creation of the atom bomb, that isnt even a question, he is absolutely responsible for it. The question is, why did he do it? Thats the fascination of the creators of this film. Throughout the runtime, there is a thread of a narrative that there was no question about capabilities of the "gadget". It was always meant to be a bomb, everyone knew it. Bombs tend to unleash violence, or rather, "blow up", and thats perhaps the point of it. Knowing that there is simply no other justification for existence of such a powerful weapon, other than destruction, the scientists have to live in a perpetual denial. To salvage their own sanity and morality, the responsibility shifts from them to the military. After Oppenheimer's team had built the bomb, he no longer had authority to weigh in on how is it gonna be used

Would be a man, such as Oppenheimer himself, a man of a sharp mind whove made an atom bomb, know the consequences of his actions? Surely, since the beginning, the intention was to build the bomb as an safeguard against a Nazi bomb. Oppenheimer was smart, but he was too naive. He had little wisdom, he knew hardly any failure. I think dat at no point Oppenheimer admitted that he failed at any thing, because he liked power. He liked the thought of a possibility that he could stop all wars. Wat he wanted is acknowledgement of his own acumen

This is a film about power, who wields it, wat are the consequences of its misuse, and how "good guys tend to do bad" things. And the answer is that power is beyond us. We are just creatures of pettiness and personal ambitions. We are humans and humans tend to do human things, even when we realize that the consequences could be disastrous for all of the humanity. We are driven to do things that hardly can fall nicely into category either right or wrong. It is not a matter of knowing, but being. Oppenheimer wanted to be an accomplished man, a great scientist, that at once thought he could stop all wars. Even the fundamental contradiction of stopping all wars with a most potent weapon wouldnt stop him, because for him it was his own ambition that mattered the most. The antagonist of the film, Lewis Strauss, is the great example of it. The movie wont reveal until the very end that he was the bad guy, but wats striking is that he is right. He was right when he launched his tantrum about Oppenheimer, because he himself understood the ambition. Strauss thought of and viewed Oppenheimer through the prism of himself. And he was completely right in doing that, those two men are very similar in the movie. The difference is not in their views, or morality, the difference is in their being. Oppenheimer has made himself to be wat he wanted to be. Strauss has failed to do so. In this sense, Oppenheimer was the antagonist and Strauss was antagonist of the antagonist. Why? Because power. From where does Oppenheimer's power to be wat he wanted to be comes from? How could Oppenheimer achieve everything he has wanted? In a way, he used power that is beyond him to serve his purposes. He was the modern Prometheus. With the accent on "modern"

>>275528
>Oppenheimer. Was it a good movie?
No. Case closed.

good Konata

I already wrote mine all for the week
Back to half arsed replies unfortunately

Barbie. Where do I start with this

Dolls, some play with them. As a child, or a bigger child, no matter. Wat is a doll if not a toy? Indeed, the movie starts with an explanation that dolls started as a toy to play a mother with. It ended the same way

There is no thing to say about this movie. The point of it is absence. Death is absence, but that is not the ultimate form of it. The most severe punishment Greeks came up with is banishment, exile from a polity, because excommunication makes life useless. Exiling is equal to lowering someone to a beast, it is a forced debasement of someone's humanity to the level of an animal. This is wat Barbieland is, place of eternal exile, the interiority of an iron maiden

The hyperreality of Barbieland is decadence and it is not hard to see why. The commentary on reality is glaring but that reality is not the reality that we live in, no. It is the film's reality, where America is essentially the whole world. America is the totalizing agent, monarch in one face, and its subjects exile their dreams to a hyperreal space that is little different from middle class conception of wat life supposed to be

In this special space of pink paint there is no fault for dat the space is ideal. The fashion of the interior space of hyperreality is literally a decadent smear of nothingness exemplified in exaggeration of the "real". The real that never was, that never could be

Barbieland, for all of it existential faux philosophy, faux performance and comical portrayal of feminism, is literally a tortue chamber. Barbieland is Guantanamo Bay, it is not meant to be anything else than dat. Nothing works the same in Barbieland, it is an imagined space where dreams actualize themselves without a supposed player. The metaphysical player is always benevolent in Barbieland but herein lies the twisted logic of it. How can women be free if there is no reality or hyperreality in which they dont have a special handler? There is no freedom for women, Barbie rejects women freedom in favour of the metaphysical bread, in favor of having a vagina as the ultimate expression of womanhood, Barbie is a movie of becoming a mother, engenderer of things

There is nothing in this film to be uplifted about. The message it peddles is utter hopelessness of women. This film is targeted at men and it speaks the men language as a capitulation to the incentives. Barbie is about total capitulation and direct enslavement of women to men. There is no other interpretation in this, when Kens realized that they are Ken wat it meant is that they are free in a such capacity as their identity is Ken. Without Ken, they are nothing, they dont exist, when Barbie separated Barbie and Ken into Barbie, Ken, wat it meant is annihilation of shared humanity, total eclipse on concept of mutuality and final establishment of extreme level of atomization

This is hell, no question. Dolce & Gabanna handbag speak for itself, there is no escape. There is no escape in death if you are in hell, so, theyve put Barbie in a reality. This is a circle of perpetual enslavement complete, perfected to excellence, rehearsed over and over again on the same stage. Total domination of alienation, when the hyperreality was complete in its corruption, the reality has no choice but to become the worst version of it. The ideals have become false idols, and the world has lost all light, all purpose or meaning. The world has become Dionysian, place of infinite entropy and chaos. Place of embraced uncertainty

And in this place, at the end when Barbie embraces own mortality, she becomes Promethean. A creator of meaning, of reality, she has had become a creator of her own vagina. She has had become truly the Empire itself, she is the face of the empire, engenderer of meaning, she creates subjects by will. In her owm mortality she has found her immortality as an absolute atominized self, vagina without a body. Ideal creation, perfect in all dimensions, as a new woman she creates out of her own will everything that is around her. History becomes synonymous with her because there is no history without her. As an absolute atomized self that is at once a monarch engendering reality and subject of the reality that she created, it is her identity as a woman that gives her such power. There is no vagina without a woman

>>275529
Nah, Oppenheimer was a good movie. Barbie sucked
>>275530
Agree
>>275533
There is no rush, it is not a competition…

>>275529
yenisei had to like it because its about atomic bomb.

>>275593
correct, the theme of the movie was bad, but if there is one thing to like about it, is that its aesthetically unique movie, maybe hellish like you said, but nostalgia to it. idk how to put it, like watching teleshopping channel on TV as a kid. you kinda hate to watch it, but all kids shows ended, so you just sit in front of TV mindlessly watching ads. And in that sense alone, it was worth to watch.

>>275609
I know you like nostalgia. Before, I didnt want you to change your views on it. Now, Im determined to change your positive views about nostalgia some day

Well, it might be aesthetically unique. But is it dat important? I mean, most things are aesthetically unique. Well, but is Barbie very particular in aesthetics? Yeah, sure, but dat is not wat makes it hellish though. The premise and how it progresses is literally Dante's Inferno, she is literally, in my eyes becomes Promethean from Dionysian. So, yeah, Barbie is Nietzschean in a very cynical way, in dat it says dat atomized self is ideal self or literally being atomized is a state of being a Superman(transcendent figure). Ive never read Nietzsche, however I get feeling dat I believe in watever he believed so I guess I can use his name like dat

Well, I think Barbie's aesthetic is kinda poor… It caters to men so it is not really dat radical or watever. Barbie sucked but I did enjoyed watching it… Male choreography was best part, for example, I liked dances and song. Aa for else, eh… atom bomb is more fair than watever Barbie is, I prefer Oppenheimer…

(Well, now dat I have a job I gonna be going to sleep earlier because I have get up early. Also I might long for many day straight and I might not reply because of this… I would post from phone at work, but I cant open Staffas from cellular connection for some reason and I dont want to install VPN or Tor on my second phone because, well, Russian bank app would know dat I have VPN app on phone… which is very weird of them. Yeah, Im going to sleep now, Im a bit late for today though… See you on the work plane)

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