Adam’s review published on Letterboxd:
An earth-shattering piece of film-making that I'm loving more and more as I keep reflecting on it. Around every corner is another supporting cast member throwing absolute heat on-screen, and you can't help but be carried along for this super fast 3 hours.
There's so much to chew on here about identical both personal and national, wartime morality, and the intersection of science/engineering with political gesturing. The huger the stakes get, the closer the film draws towards its protagonist, a balance that we haen't seen from Nolan before.
Much like Michael Mann's Ali, this is the best way to present a biopic. It uses the cinematic form to add context across decades and in doing so adds so many layers of depth to the central character. Rather than viewing this as a feature length Wikipedia entry, it instead constrasts periods of time and uses subjectivity to make it far more compelling.
I also saw many parallels to Miyazaki's The Wind Rises here. It's that deep, existential pain of having your life's passions result in a weapon of war, due largely in part to systems out of your control and the time you live in. The atomic bomb as an extension of Oppenheimer's self, where there is a constant ache in knowing that all of these men's bodies of work led them to this horrific moment in history.
I'm loving reading everyone's reactions to this, and can't wait to watch it again to take in everything it has to offer.
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