Murphy plays Oppenheimer from a young student in Cambridge in the 1920s through to the post-war McCarthy era and beyond, without the aid of distracting de-aging CGI (the physicist died in 1967). But it’s so multifaced and massive, so you just dive in.” “I was so exhilarated to be given the opportunity – it’s kind of a dream part. “Oh, there was a man,” Murphy said of his character. Oppenheimer’s piercing blue stare is inhabited by Cillian Murphy, the director’s long-time collaborator and first-time leading man. We’re trying to experience things with him and understand.” We’re trying to really entertain and engage in a meaningful way,” Nolan explained. But we’re trying to give the audience an experience. Flitting between color and monochrome – the director has described the former as a subjective and the latter an objective lens on events – we mostly experience the narrative through Oppenheimer’s eyes. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, but stops short of its forensic take on the physicist. Nolan’s screenplay – written, unusually, in the first person – drew from definitive biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer." Universal Pictures Working in IMAX, the director conjures an overwhelming, altogether haunting retelling of the story of the bomb’s creation and its fallout across three taut hours that pushes the limits of the medium itself.Ĭillian Murphy as godfather of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific genius and conflicted godfather of the atomic bomb. As the name suggests, Nolan has taken on the life of J. It’s almost like humanity can only deal with one apocalypse at a time, and there’s so many issues to worry about.”īut worry many will after watching “Oppenheimer,” his latest and perhaps greatest film to date. “Our relationship with nuclear weapons is very complicated,” Nolan told CNN. And it’s precisely at this moment that Christopher Nolan is asking audiences to look it soberly in the eye. Yet the nuclear threat feels closer today than it has for generations. In the 21st Century, other existential threats have reared their heads. It would have seemed inconceivable then, but the atomic bomb did fade out of mind. To look at it head-on was to be blinded by its glare the power it wrought was too absurd - and too close - to countenance. The bomb was a sick joke to be ridden, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes literally, a totem of mankind’s ingenuity and stupidity riveted shut and let fly. At the height of the Cold War, when mutually assured destruction was at its crazed height, nuclear warfare found itself abstracted through humor – perhaps the only reasonable way to treat something so fearsome. The hydrogen bomb,” an exasperated US president reminds his Soviet counterpart in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic “Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”Īs if the bomb could ever be forgotten.
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