Oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer 2023

★★★★½

Watched 30 Aug 2023

Christopher Nolan is such a consistent filmmaker who always provides the most monumental cinema experience. The biography of Oppenheimer is not something I'm particularly interested in, but Nolan knows how to distract the utmost out of anything he's touched, make it soulful and reflective, and add his trademark of shattering sight and sound into the mix.

This is a long, retrospective but never boring tale of personal integrity, historical milestone, and political struggles. As a character study, it meticulously documents the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb", who rose to fame and was eventually persecuted for his enormous talent and humanistic stance. Using black and white as a reference of time, this plays out in a non-linear manner and closes itself out nicely.

It's almost gratuitous to marvel at the technical achievement of Nolan productions, but you have to actually see it in a theater to feel its impact on you. But it's not gratuitous to praise a star-studded ensemble of familiar faces. Cillian Murphy in his career-best performance is restraint at its finest, in contrast to Robert Downey Jr.'s more theatrical but equally impressive delivery. Also Josh Hartnett, I just love this guy so much. Highly recommended.

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