Barbie can be anything, including a scientist who stole the world’s innocence by developing a harbinger of the apocalypse.
, J. Robert Oppenheimer is a ghost of himself, relegated to haunting bureaucratic spaces as a figurehead more than a scientist. Ruth Handler meanwhile is a literal ghost, relegated to haunting the Mattel offices as an idea that they both work with and push against. Both Jewish. Both inventors. Both real-life people. Case closed.Barbieat all, but it’s the truth. Stereotypical Barbie is who all the other characters revolve around.
. But in both films, the most dastardly of the bunch stands out. If Groves is a man intently focused on the bomb, and Gosling-Ken is a man intensely focused on Barbie, then Pash and Simu Liu’s Ken are the roadblocks that stand between them and their fixations. Simu-Ken flirts shamelessly with Barbie, while Pash interrogates Oppenheimer about his Communist besties, which in effect puts all the scientists of the Manhattan Project under scrutiny.
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