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dealt with real things, but Nolan’s work has largely been less about people than about the spectacle swirling around them, the awe and terror they experience as reality bends and new consciousness blooms. Which perhaps makes J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, a perfect subject for Nolan’s first venture into fact-based character drama.
Oppenheimer, as described in the film , was plagued by visions of a world just beyond our own. He was a pioneer in the nascent field of quantum physics, which meant that, in essence, he really was envisioning another plane of existence: the molecular jumble that makes up all matter, governed by rules and properties we still don’t entirely understand.
That is the sorry horror at the center of Oppenheimer’s story: that his particular genius, his avid and productive curiosity about the nature of life and its surroundings, could be fashioned into a weapon. Of course, the circumstances of Oppenheimer’s day were dire: The Nazis were working on their own atomic project, and the Allied forces rightfully feared what Hitler and his gang might do with that power if they were to achieve it before the Americans.
That relentless pace is thrilling and tiring at once. Nolan aptly synthesizes the momentum of these men and their ideas, creating a heady sense of the world suddenly spinning at a precarious new tilt. We are disoriented, yes, butdemands that we trust in the grand mural so furiously painted in Nolan’s stern hues—that it will be understood in its whole once we have caught our breath and taken a step back to gaze upon its magnificence. That bears out, to some extent.
Oppenheimer is a commanding, eerie figure—haughty and saturnine, haunted and consumed. His political conflicts—a dabbler in Communism and an avowed progressive, Oppenheimer was often regarded suspiciously by military and governmental brass—are nestled convincingly alongside his personal struggles.
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