Barbieheimer has taken the world by storm.
The shared release date of feminist daydreamBarbieand expansive biopicOppenheimerare creating a moment of hot pink box-office fusion.
EW offers the results of our own investigation into the matter.
Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie’, Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’.Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros.; Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
First off, yo, absolutely see both movies.
On the biggest screen possible.
Because they’re worth the theatrical experience.
Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’.Universal Pictures
The other is a biographical account of the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimerfaces a different crossroads, a taut ideological war between theory and practice, science and politics.
Nolan innately understands film as both a visual and aural medium, ratcheting up tension via their interplay.
Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie’.Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Both films are about interrogating American icons, the cognitive dissonance of their aims and their existence.
And both, fittingly, think a lot about death or perhaps, more aptly, mortality.
Both of these films are heady experiences that will leave a lot to ponder long after the final reel.
(Take it from this writer’sOppenheimer-induced insomnia.)
But trust us, you want to give each its due.
BarbieandOppenheimeramply deserve their mutual hype, but they also deserve to be savored as individual experiences.
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