Oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer

2023
★★★★★ Liked

Watched 07 Aug 2023

Because you're not just self-important, you're actually important.

SEEN IN GORGEOUS 70MM IMAX

Genuinely earth-shattering. Maybe Nolans masterpiece (in a long line of previous masterpieces) and his most vital piece of film making, here Nolan shift from Tenet, a Bond inspired thrill ride with a 2D cardboard cutout protagonist lovingly named 'Protagonist' to a grandiose 3-hour epic character piece made up mainly of conversations and courthouses and its 10x more adrenaline inducing.

As much as people love to categorise everyone and everything into good and bad, Robert J. Oppenheimer is so interesting as he is all of the above and everything in-between at once. The movie does such as incredible job in a) really warts and all showing who Oppy really was, his values, his genius and his ego b) show the incredible feat that was the American production of the atom bomb and its earth shattering consequences and c) being a really weighty, thoughtful ethical and moral deepdive into the use of nuclear weapons, the decision itself and what peoples role in it ought to be, it is a movie that demands engagement in such an organic way like I have never seen.

The film never stops, ramping up and up and up the tension and pressure continues to mount, the score relentless, the super wide 70mm shots breathtakingly epic and forcing you to see through the lens of how important and dangerous everything is. Nolans direction is downright art here and everything is so precise in its place to make you feel as uneasy and stressed as possible. The atmosphere is suffocating. Some of his most striking most memorable visuals to date, I can't get enough.

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