Two reviews up! One is for a film that is a symphony of chaos with a mix of devastation and heart-pounding excitement... and the other is Oppenheimer! 🤣 Just kidding around, they are both must-see movies! 👏 💥 💕 BarbieMovie
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Based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan wrote the script for Oppenheimer in the first person, taking his preoccupation with the subjective point of view to new creative heights. Oppenheimer is so firmly within its title character's head that the film is jarring at first as it shifts between color and black and white . Downey Jr. may very well steal the show as Strauss, as he manages to upstage just about everyone in Oppenheimer's stacked cast.
Oppenheimer's fragmented structure gives way to some of Nolan's most distinctively discomfiting imagery in years, including one scene between Murphy, Pugh, and Blunt that speaks to the depth in which we are in Oppenheimer's fractured psyche. These feelings of discomfort give way to abject horror, moments that are compounded by Nolan's symphony of chaos — sparks colliding, atoms splitting, feet stomping, stars imploding, desert dust sweeping against the landscape.
The process of discovery in Oppenheimer goes down many paths. Nolan may have the science down pat — experts have praised his take on everything from interstellar travel to the moral dilemma of the scientist at the center of this film — but it's man that may remain an even greater mystery for the director. "Fission," a title card revealed at the onset of Oppenheimer, is the process in which a neutron slams into an atom, causing it to split in two.
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