By Jonty Langley2023-08-04T13:57:00
Barbenheimer is a cinematic phenomenon. Jonty Langley has watched both Barbie and Oppenheimer, and reckons they each have something profound to say, both to the Church and to our searching culture
When Hollywood bases a film on a book, a previous film, a video game or a ride, they call it “using existing intellectual property”. I call it an endless stream of boring. I call it Deja view.
So what would you call a film based on an object created more than half a century ago that has done huge harm to our collective psyche?
I’d call it Barbie.
But you could also call it Oppenheimer.
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