We can answer the ANC call to help the government by sending it to the movies to learn about self-destruction
This week, hundreds of thousands of cinemagoers will be doing a Barbenheimer — watching Barbie and Oppenheimer back-to-back — but I will not be joining them: if I wanted to hurt myself by enduring a five-hour marathon of lurchingly incongruous stories featuring plastic idiots and government employees inventing new ways of destroying everything, I’d just listen to a speech by Fikile Mbalula.
Not that the Barbenheimer ordeal isn’t edifying in its own way, capturing, as it has, a revealing picture of our current moment. Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan clearly wants us to think about our penchant for self-destruction, but until we live in a world in which a film about nuclear devastation doesn’t instantly get transformed into a hashtag and a fun evening out dressed in pink, I’m afraid such introspection might remain beyond us. ..
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