Oppenheimer
Jul. 24th, 2023 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Ambitious movie.
Noisy movie.
And isn't it interesting that at just this point in our history- when everything is falling apart- we feel the need to pay attention to the story of The Bomb.
Whether Oppenheim is a sufficently interesting character in himself to carry such a big movie is something I'm just going to put out there as a question. He was a good scientist- not a great one- and an inspired team leader. Apart from that he seems to have been a fairly ordinary Joe. But perhaps history is mostly made by ordinary Joes...
A decent flawed individual, carried along by the stream, rarely getting to touch bottom.
We have the science and we have the politics. I could have done with more quantum physics and less back room skullduggery. The Bomb killed 120,000 people. Set against that huge and shocking fact who cares whether Little Oppenheimer keeps his top level security clearance or whether even littler Stauss (pronounced Straws) gets voted into the cabinet office?
Then again this is Planet Earth and the rancid politics of bruised egos and petty ambition is the ocean in which we swim.
Nice to see Great British Thesps turn in colourful cameos as Great Scientific Geniuses. Tom Conti as Albert Einstein, Kenneth Branagh as Nils Bohr...
Nice to see a movie, actually, in which scientists- real scientists and not sci-fi scientists- get to be the heroes.
Give Cillian Murphy the Oscar now. Maybe give one to Emily Blunt as well.
Matt Damon is an unspectacular performer, but always reliable. What a range he has...
I suppose Christopher Nolan may well be our greatest living director. He makes enormous, visually and viscerally exciting movies that aren't stupid. Nearest thing we have to Stanley Kubrick- but very, very different...
Noisy movie.
And isn't it interesting that at just this point in our history- when everything is falling apart- we feel the need to pay attention to the story of The Bomb.
Whether Oppenheim is a sufficently interesting character in himself to carry such a big movie is something I'm just going to put out there as a question. He was a good scientist- not a great one- and an inspired team leader. Apart from that he seems to have been a fairly ordinary Joe. But perhaps history is mostly made by ordinary Joes...
A decent flawed individual, carried along by the stream, rarely getting to touch bottom.
We have the science and we have the politics. I could have done with more quantum physics and less back room skullduggery. The Bomb killed 120,000 people. Set against that huge and shocking fact who cares whether Little Oppenheimer keeps his top level security clearance or whether even littler Stauss (pronounced Straws) gets voted into the cabinet office?
Then again this is Planet Earth and the rancid politics of bruised egos and petty ambition is the ocean in which we swim.
Nice to see Great British Thesps turn in colourful cameos as Great Scientific Geniuses. Tom Conti as Albert Einstein, Kenneth Branagh as Nils Bohr...
Nice to see a movie, actually, in which scientists- real scientists and not sci-fi scientists- get to be the heroes.
Give Cillian Murphy the Oscar now. Maybe give one to Emily Blunt as well.
Matt Damon is an unspectacular performer, but always reliable. What a range he has...
I suppose Christopher Nolan may well be our greatest living director. He makes enormous, visually and viscerally exciting movies that aren't stupid. Nearest thing we have to Stanley Kubrick- but very, very different...
