Oppenheimer Was Bomb!

Let’s all be honest this movie was ridiculous. Christopher Nolan and whoever else made this movie achieved the most realistic depiction of human emotion that I have ever seen in a film. I love the way that they make it so that his mind reacts like a bomb-- it’s easy to see that's how he feels. His overstimulation was intensely captured in each scene. So much of this movie was bone-chilling. The scenes were so incredibly thought out and just flawlessly executed— down to the use of non diegetic sound and the camera shots. Every actor involved gave an insane performance. Cillian Murphy is truly incredible. It is so hard to grasp that this movie is reality and this thing really did happen. 

To quickly single this out, the scene where he delivers the speech immediately proceeding the bombing of Hiroshima had me paralyzed, clinging onto the feeling of the reclining theatre chair to remind me that I am in a movie theatre and not inside of Oppenheimer's head. The most incredible scene I’ve probably ever seen. The climax, Oppenheimer being cheered at for delivering mass murder. It’s all catching up to him, the fact that he was so lost in his breakthrough that he didn’t realize the importance and reality of what his actions would cause. Especially considering the enemy he was really trying to stop, Germany, had already been defeated. INSANITY! HOW DID SOMEONE THINK OF THIS. 

America SUCKEDDDDDDDD and will truly do whatever it takes to be able to do whatever they want. Justice be damned. Truth be damned. The government convinced him that building the bomb was the only way. He believed it, shit I believed it too. The fear that if America didn’t build it another country would is a valid one, honestly. He was put in what appeared to be an impossible situation. The way this movie makes it seem, true or not because I’m not a history person I don’t know at all, Oppenheimer genuinely believed he was doing the right thing until it became apparent that he wasn’t. The problem is people with power. They use people until they get what they want and then shut everyone else out of the equation. Worse, they give them an illusion of control when in reality you are just there to fulfill their desires. Maybe just maybe the world would be better if we listened to the people with the information and knowledge and treated them with respect. 

Truman SCARED me hi thank you yeah. The version of him I learned about in my history class last year is congruent with the character I experienced in the theatre. Which is horrifying to think about. I have so many thoughts I feel like but I can’t even think anymore. This movie following Barbie has fried my brain I think. My overall thoughts are that this movie is a 10/10 in quality and it makes me feel grateful to be alive at this time of such incredible film making. Contradictory to everything I said, though, I’m not a big history person and so my enjoyment of this movie was more like a 7/10. It got better and worse for enjoyment but it was really long. Some parts they may have done without. But maybe not! Who am I to judge! 

And last, emily blunt was one of my favorite parts of this movie. She ate all the guys up at the interrogation thingy and she was right THE WHOLE TIME! Thank you very much but no one LISTENS because she’s a woman. I’d go crazy too.

SORRY LAST THING also just found out that the editor for this movie also cut hereditary and midsommer— incredible stylistic choice. I cant imagine the film if it had not been cut the exact way this was.