Review of Barbie

Instead of Barbie, or before watching Barbie, I suggest one should watch Episode Nosedive of the Black Mirror Series. One would then come to know, that it wasn’t / isn’t about the Gender Wars, but, the Social Media baloney buffoonery of the last decade and a half, their policies alike no. of click + followers == payback to users + paycheck to resident employees + revenue for the company, that actually crumbled the Internet, with the cherries on top of the cake being today’s modern liberal leftists & puffery Influencers.

One needs to understand, it isn’t about Barbie being feminine & Ken being muscular, as there’s nothing feminine or masculinity or mansplaining or womansplaining, when both are working under the same ceiling, and associated with the same kind of professions.

On one hand, Barbie wants everything, from femininity to her other half being associated with the best profession to she herself touching the career heights to luxury to love to pampering to affection; and that’s the problem with Barbie. She wants a four-legged horse life, which honestly, hardly few get. And on the other hand, there’s Ken, and Ken also wants the same thing what Barbie desires except in its more muscular form. Thus, it’s not about the clashes of genders; it’s about the clashes of desires.

And when you look at Women or Men working in the today’s pretentious empty Corporate world, one can find such foundation-less evolutionary traits thriving. I suggest, experience it atleast once in your life, and you would come to know what I’m talking about.

Barbie isn’t fascist, she just wants everything posh in her life; just alike Ken! A well-settled pampered life. Nothing wrong; but what happens when everyone becomes Barbie or Ken? Then, that you might experience in the movie only.

I’m again repeating, there’re real women victims' in real lives; women who want to unshackle their faces covered in veil, women who want to ditch child marriage, women who’re single & have to run their kitchen without any backing with no retirement support, women who once wanted to publish without using any pseudo names, women who want marriage rights by abolishing of polygamy, women who’re the sole bread winner of their families; and I’m sorry, Barbie isn’t one of them. Sorry! Nor so, men alike Ken.

Alas, the share of the real Women victims' usually are being taken by the likes of Barbie. And so goes for Ken, who doesn’t represent the real men, including in terms of masculinity.

I watched this flick just to do the comparative analysis as explained above.

All said & done, the flick wasn’t that appealing! My Apologies!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

Review of Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer isn’t merely a movie but both theatrical exhibition + expedition. And Ludwig Göransso is the new Hans Zimmer of this time. He was able to recreate via transformation what Hans Zimmer did in Dunkirk. At one point you would think that its Hans Zimmer behind the theme, score & composition. And regarding Oppenheimer art, one should be seeking reviews more from the Japanese origin people in Japan or elsewhere. And whether the decline in Japanese population too had anything to do with aftermaths of Nuke bombing in '45!

No doubt, a century back, the Germans, Soviets & Americans (in that chronological order) produced some of the best scientific discoveries or inventions. Whilst the rest of the World was fighting for its independence.

The movie is more empathetic towards intellectual communism, filled with nationalism + conservatism, screening war between capitalism vs communism, while rendezvousing with political opportunism, as if one can’t live without another.

The Nazis surrendered, Soviets were already going against Japanese; thus, the movie somehow fails to explain the necessity to drop bombs on Hiroshima-Nagasaki, when Japan eventually would’ve surrendered anyhow someday. And that’s the problem in this flick!  

Oppenheimer as a scientist was merely doing his job. So as Einstein did the same. And had the movie elaborated more at the Administration level what was the necessity or reason to drop bombs on Japan, this would’ve been the masterpiece of this decade, as the then Hon’ble President Truman too said that no one remembers who built the bomb but who dropped it.

Robert Downy Jr. after taking a long ride in theme parks aka Marvel movies has now returned to his true cinematic character as Strauss. And Cillian Murphy, of course, so far, the front runner for the Oscar.

Some people are drawing analogy between AI vs Nuke, saying Nuke can’t build a better Nuke, but an AI can exponentially build better AI; which I absolutely denounce. Human mind evolved to build, discover, invent & originate. And for a billion years, only organic life has evolved on Earth. This is our last chance in this era to build another species, be it AGI or otherwise.

And one more thing, if merely to end the war, Nukes were dropped on Japan; what if Russia too follows the same analogy against Ukraine?

But all said & done, undoubtedly a must watch! 😊

© Pranav Chaturvedi