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A vision, in every known sense of the word, of doom. Many films can portray the end of the world, but few films are truly apocalyptic. Joining the likes of Satantango, Cure, and of course Apocalypse Now of works that seem like the dying breaths of a mad prophet, Oppenheimer is Nolan’s chilling cinematic interrogation, while being cleverly distracting with the structure of the atomic bomb, of political deceit and vanity. The phenomenally executed board scenes that are the spine of the film portray a biting rage similar to that of an Oliver Stone joint, portraying the tragic irony of one telling you about the speck in your eye while a plank is stuck in theirs. A modern dogmatism. The only reasonable end is death.
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