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in reply to @MayaGay's post:

we don't go to movies these days; mostly we watch older stuff, and newer movies trickle into the queue eventually. so the Barbie / Oppenheimer fight mostly doesn't interest us, but all the same—it is very difficult to believe that a edgy nerdbro like Christopher Nolan can possibly have anything useful to say about Oppenheimer, beyond the customary (and grotesque) nerdbro worship of The Bomb™ as if it were some pinnacle of human achievement. give me the Barbie movie any day over nerdwank about The Bomb™. ~Chara

Y'know, I am not the world's biggest Chris Nolan fan. I didn't see either Tenet or Intersteller and while I am not avoiding them out of any moral stance I also don't feel the need to actively seek them out. However, I feel like Nolan has a certain philosophy to his filmmaking that is waning in the current cultural moment: one that studio filmmaking should be an avenue for exploring sociatal feelings regarding moral positions as opposed to simply providing entertainment. I expect Oppenheimer to be more like The Wind Rises in terms of it's lesson: the pleasures that come with discovery also carry with them the costs of the world. Strangely I think Gerwig also explores a similar place in her work, from a different angle.

I hope you're correct about Oppenheimer—I mean, I hope the movie's actually got some substance to it. but I'm worried that it'll end up being an amplification of the standard U.S. self-justifications about the militarization of the atom. I guess we shall see! (eventually.) ~Chara