Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
Following his historic Oscar win, the director of “Godzilla Minus One,” which deals with the devastation of the atomic bombings of Japan in World War II, responded to a question about his thoughts on “Oppenheimer,” a portrayal of the American scientist responsible for the deadly weapon.
Robert Oppenheimer, director of the clandestine weapons lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, that was part of the top-secret U.S. effort to make the first atomic bomb. But the film also garnered mixed reactions for its erasure of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese victims of Oppenheimer’s creation. Nolan said he chose not to illustrate the aftermath of the bombings or the victims because “to depart from Oppenheimer’s experience would betray the terms of the storytelling.
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