beautiful. bravo nolan!
Question for those who have already seen Oppenheimer: I have been avoiding watching it because I don’t want to see some guy celebrated (or focus on their emotional struggle) whilst ignoring the immense number of innocents killed by the weapon they were fully aware of creating. Is this concern reasonable? I like Nolan’s movies in general, so if it wasn’t I’d gladly watch it
The main focus is on Oppenheimer’s journey, from communist to working on the Manhattan project, and his life after the project. They don’t glorify the process, although it’s fair to say the deaths in Japan don’t get a huge amount of attention.
It’s also worth noting the program originally began as a race against Germany to build a nuke.
Your concern is understandable.
Even-so, I would say it’s worth a watch. It does a good job of being historically accurate. I don’t want to say too much as it’d spoil the experience of watching a movie (at least by how I define spoilers hah), but I think the movie strikes a solid balance in respecting the lives lost, calling out the hypocrisy, bringing up arguments for both for and against, acknowledging genius etc.
Ultimately, watching the movie with grains of salt (as with everything) is an enriching experience and it’d be a shame to miss.
Now for the movie watching experience: If you can, watch it in IMAX 70mm. But since that’s very rare, I otherwise recommend Dolby Cinema.
Hope that helps a bit.
Thanks for your explanation! Sounds like I now need to figure out where to find it in this format :)
I’d like to know too! I loved The Greatest Showman in spite of it, but it was weird how it glorified P.T. Barnum…
He is not celebrated and his struggle with consequences of bombing Japan are shown (and shown quite artistically interesting) and with knowing that atomic bomb will change the future. Also, movie carries a message that is anti nuclear weapons and ends on that note.
