Left: Barbie © Warner Bros. Right: Oppenheimer © Universal Pictures.

The huge commercial operation that has come with the simultaneous premieres of Barbie and Oppenheimer has even resulted in a tag of its own, ‘Barbenheimer,’ and revived architectures as oneiric as the spaces inhabited by the pink doll and her boyfriend, Ken, modeled on the Californian houses of the 1950s, or as regimented as Los Alamos, the secret enclave created in the middle of the desert of New Mexico by Lieutenant General Leslie Groves and the physicist Robert Oppenheimer to provide a laboratory for the scientists of the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb. Focho has depicted the nostalgia that has accompanied the box-office success of both movies with the bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the nuclear artefact on Hiroshima, now piloted by a Putin who would perhaps like to carry out the same operation on Kyiv; and with the toy convertible Corvette now driven by the Prime Minister of Spain, in the company of his Second Deputy; the political pair of the moment.
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Barbie & Oppenheimer