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Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer: Trailer
Oppenheimer, a classic non-fiction film is yet another masterpiece written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Films is based on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who played a crucial role in developing the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. The film stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves, and Robert Downey Jr as Lewis Strauss.
Oppenheimer Movie: Short Review
Movie captures the essence of a tragic American genius regarded as ‘Father of Atomic Bomb’. Nolan’s masterful work in the film demonstrates his unique way of storytelling. The movie goes back and forth in timeline to present a riveting plot that not only revolves around science, technology, politics but also around human emotions of hatred, jealousy, anger. The movie travels across his early life, his struggles and then moves ahead to his discovery to disillusionment. All this is interweaved with two trials that took place at two distinct times.
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One trial shows Oppenheimer being scrutinized to decide on his security clearance and another (which occurred chronologically later) is a Senate confirmation hearing for nomination of Strauss as Secretary of Commerce.
He was involved in a romantic relationship with Jean Tatlock, a member of the Communist Party USA and his wife too was a ex-communist. This very thread of being associated with communists like Jean, his brother Frank along with actual incidents of espionage at Manhattan project are exploited by the Kangaroo court influenced by Strauss to revoke Oppenheimer’s security clearance.
Whereas, at the Senate confirmation hearing, Strauss’s personal vendetta against Oppenheimer comes to the fore, and hence Strauss does not get confirmed for the post.
The Trinity test
Entrusted by U.S. Army General Leslie Groves to lead the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb, Oppenheimer builds a team of America’s top scientists. The whole team along with their families stay at a temporary town created just for this project. He believed that they have to beat Germany in the race of making bombs, this will shorten the war and save thousands of lives.
on July 16, 1945, they successfully conduct the test and expressions on Oppenheimer’s face show both passion towards his work and enormous implications probably he sees in the flames of the blast.
Crisis of conscience
The Ending
This brings us to the final part of the movie, where trails are being concluded and finally we get to see what had transpired between Einstein and Oppenheimer at the beginning when Oppenheimer joins the institute. Though Lewis Strauss believes it was something about him, the conversation is different altogether.
He reminds the Einstein, while he is leaving, that he had asked about calculations depicting that if they set off the atomic bomb, it may create a chain reaction that would never end and ignite the atmosphere, thus destroying the world. When Einstein asks “what of it?”, he responds, “I believe we did” !!
Though the atomic bomb did not start a literal chain reaction, it was surely an onset of never ending race of nukes that will ultimately result in destruction of the world!
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