Movie #3088 "Oppenheimer" (movie theatre) another overhyped film to me, but this one with more meat to it --- and way too long, in my opinion. This one is also expertly done, except that I'm not sure as meticulous and careful that Christopher Nolan usually is, that he wouldn't label each speaker with a name and his/her job in this story --- wayyyyyy too many people, wayyyyyy too many cameo roles and actors we spend time trying to place in our memory, instead of following the intricate story ---- just overdone and overlong --- are we supposed to take from this that we should be proud we were the ones who made the bomb first before everyone else ? or are we just lucky it happened and Oppenheimer got us to that brink ? And then what does our government do but drop any blame on him !....I was conflicted going into the film about how I should feel about this scientist and his work, and when I came out I was still conflicted. The film bounced around in time, and even when it was in the present of the film, it bounced from one group of people to another...... without helping the viewer take in the information in a better and more understandable way, and incidentally, showing very little of the women who worked on the Manhattan project (google the topic -- there are several articles on some female heroes that were left out of the story) . In the future, when this film is presented, it should go hand in hand with good films that show the results of the Manhattan Project --- like "Fat Man and Little Boy" -- and there are others to show the consequences, and therefore the whole picture. Well, if it is going to be a 3 hour movie, shouldn't it tell all it can, and the consequences seemed cut off, with just a nod to the subject in a disturbing scene between Oppenheimer and President Truman. All the above is observation on my part as to why the movie was unsettling to me, even though I fully realize this probably will be the best picture of the year, and technically, and acting-wise, it is deserving of that. Images are beautiful, but like the best picture last year (oh rue the day the "Everything" movie sent the art of editing out the window and left us with ADHD editing ) the beautiful images are speedily thrown at us, and we have to put some order into them ourselves. So bottom line? it was a tough movie to watch on many levels. And why are so many people seeing this and Barbie?, and even on the same day? Hype, I think. Seems crazy to me. I'd give it a 4 but not my kind of film. and I love films on history! and I am a Christopher Nolan fan.
"OPPENHEIMER" 2023 3 hours R
The story of American scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey, Jr
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