Oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer

2023
★★

Watched 01 Aug 2023

i have no idea why you'd need to see this in 70mm imax - it's a courtroom drama and even the moment of spectacle is pretty underwhelming. the sound design was impressive - i appreciated my seat shaking, but i didn't go much on the score or the awful editing. the non-linear approach was incredibly distracting and distanced me from the characters and themes of the film. the entire film is essentially a montage and it flutters about for much of it's runtime trying to find a core emotional focus. it did finally get there and the moment with einstien did feel like a purposeful denoument, but the journey there was arduous and sanctimonious. the characters had very little depth and were impossible to connect with emotionally - the female characters even less so. the self-referential line of dialogue by oppenheimer at the end was painful ("is anyone ever going to tell the truth about what's happening here?") and i think we've finally lost christopher nolan completely up his own arse. i think that this would have been better handled by nearly any other filmmaker.

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