Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer looking worried close up
Summary Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is a brilliant biopic of the father of the atomic bomb, but a year on from its release, there are a few things that stand out. Oppenheimer faced several controversies upon release, but many of these have been summarily dismissed as Nolan's movie has been received favorably.
Cillian Murphy's Oscar-winning performance as Oppenheimer is powerful due to its restrained lack of observable emotion. While Kitty and some of Oppenheimer's colleagues urge him to show some fight, he remains a stoic victim in the eye of the storm. Nolan often lets Murphy's gaunt visage fill the frame, but this is a cunning subversion of the Kuleshov effect, where the audience have to make up their own minds about whether he is feeling fear, rage or sadness.
8 Nolan Lets The Score Overpower The Dialogue Nolan prefers to give a sense of a scene, rather than risking a lesser impact Close One of the most divisive elements of Tenet, and a few of Christopher Nolan's other movies, is that the music can sometimes make the dialogue harder to hear. This is also true of Oppenheimer. Ludwig Göransson worked on both Tenet and Oppenheimer, and his score here has been rightly recognized for its importance and impact.
Nolan is certainly not the director for this side of Oppenheimer's story, and Cillian Murphy is not the actor for it. To delineate these scenes somewhat, Oppenheimer has some black and white scenes. Most of the scenes which take place following the war are "black and white" both literally and figuratively, as they represent an objective story which contrasts Oppenheimer's personal recollection and interpretation of the color scenes. It's an interesting storytelling technique, but it's hardly intuitive. If audiences aren't clued-up to the meaning, it could be a jarring shift.
4 The Female Characters Are Relatively Hollow Kitty and Jean Tatlock aren't as developed as some male characters Close Emily Blunt deserved her Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Kitty, Oppenheimer's long-suffering wife, but her character isn't quite as three-dimensional as his. Kitty often acts as an external conduit for Oppenheimer. She is allowed to feel the injustice that he faces, even as he remains an unmovable martyr.
2 The Chain Reaction Theory Is Blown Out Of Proportion Oppenheimer manufactures a powerful finale Close Christopher Nolan saves one of Oppenheimer's best quotes for the very end, as Oppenheimer asks Albert Einstein to recall a conversation they had years ago about the possibility that the atomic bomb could destroy the entire world. It's an undeniably powerful ending, but it lends more weight to the chain reaction theory than it deserves.
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