Destroyer of worlds. A fearsome new technology. Cillian Murphy finds himself in an intimate relationship with it in Oppenheimer. This is one of Nolan’s finest films. It’s incredibly thought provoking and really gets inside the head of those involved with giving the world nuclear weapons. It is almost shakespearean in the triumph and tragedy of Oppenheimer’s invention. Sometimes Oppenheimer takes only a few seconds to go from the highest sense of relief and achievement, to a place of sheer terror. It allows you to feel both the insensitivity and detachment that those in the US military and Manhattan Project felt about the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, at the same time as allowing you to feel the horror of it. Oppenheimer was undoubtably a haunted man. In Nolan’s version of events, the vulnerable personal side of the man is pitched deep into the fever pitch hysteria of war. The drum-beat of war is never far away from Oppenheimer, and never far away from the soundtrack which is ear-blasting. The quality and power of your cinema’s audio system is of equal importance to the 70mm print in terms of the best way to see Oppenheimer, so IMAX is definitely recommended. The ‘thinking-man’s Blockbuster director’ (as I see Nolan) pioneered the modern gritty realism style of escapism, for better or worse. He handles big concepts with an auteur’s hand on the tiller. The perfect man to take on Oppenheimer. This is a film which demands a second viewing, perhaps a third....
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Thursday, 10 August, 2023