Rohan Ray’s review published on Letterboxd:
I am out of the theaters, and I am alive. I was able to experience the story of the atomic bomb and feel it through the eyes of every human behind it, and it was all because of just one legend, Christopher Edward Nolan.
I watched this movie in the best possible theater in my city, and I am so happy and proud about it because it was created to be experienced in the biggest and the best screen & speakers.
The way this movie holds you tight inside an atomic bomb and actually makes you feel every nuclear reaction inside it, it is just unimaginable even to think that it was possible, and Nolan just surpassed every thought and expectation that any being can think of. His vision of creating the whole atomic explosion experience for the screen was so real that it would actually feel like you are tightly held inside a bomb throughout the movie.
The reason behind why this movie is going to be called as one of his greatest movies or is going to come in his top 3 is because of how realistic and how it is created through a single perspective, the perspective of Robert Oppenheimer. It was just a phenomenal ride to be on and a very baffling experience to be inside such a great mind. I have always thought that filmmaking cannot come near to what we experience inside ourselves or inside our brain, but the depth that Nolan has crossed with this movie, OMG OMG.
Every scene of those particles colliding, those atoms floating around, those clouds of fire, I would say every scene he envisioned on a macro scale was an art piece I would never forget. Those atoms looked like the stars that made me mesmerized; those particles' reaction with each other were like bullets running through you, and those enormous clouds of fire and smoke were engulfing me in it; it felt like I was pushed into hell, and the sound behind these all where just something that was making my heart feel the tremor and made my skin feel the heat.
Talking about the significant Cillian Murphy effect, The Cillian Murphy effect was strong, real, vulnerable to the extreme, ethical, egoist,matyrish, god-like, and something that can never be fathomed. I am very much short of words about how Cillian has created a whole different effect of his own in this movie; he was not an actor in this movie, and he was not a character; I would say that he was in the film. I have always said one thing when an actor does a mindblowing performance is that they have mastered the character, but Cillian was so much more than that. What he has done to the character and to this movie will possibly never be described by anyone. Cillian just killed it till his last breath. I don't know how was the real Oppenheimer in real life, but I can feel that even if it were a question to the god or Robert himself, they all would have thought of Cillian's name for the character.
His acting made me live life through his head, his blue eyes looked like the whole earth that was getting destroyed by unimaginable destruction, and all of this only became possible because of the camerawork. The camera's holding was so uptight and perfect that it felt like it had just held my face. You can feel what the actor was feeling till his guts; the cinematography was soo intense.
A few days back, when I watched the movie Asteroid City, I felt how can someone gather around so much talent together. But after watching Oppenheimer, asteroid city was not the real deal because the way Nolan has amassed the most outstanding performers of this cinema world together and has made them give their best of their life will be something that will never be easily destructed. Every actor played their role with such a profundity and heart that I was just surprised how many records they will all break individually and for this movie. This movie was A Masterpiece because of how it was created with so many pieces by so many masters.
Sound has always been a significant aspect of Nolan's creation, so it was for this one too. It was as if even if you get disconnected at specific points of the movie, the only thing that will hold you tight would be the sound. The sound was beautiful, dreamlike, and much more terrifying and horrific than any other big horror movie. Watching this movie with the best surrounding speakers would be a dream come true.
I have so many emotions pumping inside my heart because this movie had everything to think about or feel. You will feel the anger, but you will also feel the happiness; you might feel the fear, but you will also feel the confidence to achieve success, and all of them were available at every stage of this movie. They all were like particles traveling parallelly, hitting me together at every scene.
I will say that Anything like this movie will never be experienced and will possibly never be created.
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