Oppenheimer
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Review by Aaron Patron

Oppenheimer

2023
★★★★★ Liked

Watched 20 Jul 2023

Seen in 70 mm at the Music Box Theatre.

This is incredibly well paced and doesn't feel like 3 hours at all. I was stunned coming out of the movie, felt like I was stoned or drunk even though I was neither. Well, I take that back. I was stoned on cinema and drunk on the movies.

There's a lot of facial acting here, and it's incredible.

The Trinity test scenes had me on the edge of my seat in the way Charles Laughton said he wanted audiences when he cast Lillian Gish in The Night of the Hunter.

The placement of the test bomb within the film's running time was also pretty bold, because if you know a bit about Oppenheimer's life coming into the movie, you know that while there's drama after that (and a lot of it), there's none that offers an opportunity to film in a big way like the test.

I also enjoyed that this doesn't make you like or support Oppenheimer. You are definitively left with the choice by the film. Far too many biopics want you to sympathize with their subject in such an obvious way that they end up being shallow.

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