Realism with Oppenheimer, or escapism with Barbie?

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Note the colourful closing BANG using rhetorical qn and word play:

“Comedies have always done well at the movies,” he said, because they do “something that the movies were made for, which is to reassure people and give them a couple of hours of escape from pretty big problems”. Who wants reality when life in plastic is so fantastic?

Qn: Do films offer anything more than an escape from reality? (Cam. 2014)