Now It's Time For The 'Oppenheimer' Review - 'Extraordinary', 'Ambitious', 'Must-See' But Not Perfect
called it “extraordinary” and a “gigantic, post-detonation study, a PTSD narrative procedure filling the giant screen with a million agonised fragments”, while also noting its gaping flaw:
The main event is that terrifying first demonstration: the Trinity nuclear test in the New Mexico desert in July 1945, when Oppenheimer is said to have silently pondered Vishnu’s lines from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds …” This is the big bang, and no one could have made it bigger or more overwhelming than Nolan. He does this without simply turning it into an action stunt – although this movie, for all its audacity and ambition, never quite solves the problem of its own obtuseness: filling the drama at such length with the torment of genius-functionary Oppenheimer at the expense of showing the Japanese experience and the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On one hand, showing the devastation that the atomic bomb had on Japan and its people might have risked turning real-life human horror into gaudy summer spectacle. In, the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is discussed in statistics of the dead and terse descriptions of their agony. At one point, Oppenheimer goes to a lecture, where a slideshow of the fallout is shown, but Nolan keeps it offscreen, focusing instead on Murphy’s expression, which is restrained but presumably remorseful.
The reviews are mostly dumbfounded by the performance of Cillian Murphy as the Man Who Would Be Destroyer of Worlds, while also acknowledging the surprising standout performance by Matt Damon, along with the vivacious Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, and the talented Florence Pugh as his mistress.Oppenheimer
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