After watching Nolan's movie "Oppenheimer" in the morning, my brain was almost blank. Because of the three-hour bombardment of information, my senses were tired and I couldn't write a word.
Although it was an early session, the attendance was high. The audience was almost all teenage boys, who sat there with glasses on and watched intently for three hours, as if they were students who had come to listen to the lecture, and did not move around noisily. The "classroom discipline" is so good that it is very moving.
Oppenheimer, portrayed by Nolan, is a not-so-likable guy. He is a Kochi white leftist, close to the youth of the labor movement and the American Communist Party activists, but he deliberately keeps his distance, even if most of the people around him, including his brother, joined the party, he did not join the American Communist Party, and took the opportunity to maintain an improper extramarital relationship with beautiful women. Is this naivety or speculation? Not so easy to say.
After creating the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer showed the "Virgin mentality" again, which was originally a big killer, how could it not be dead! Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, and the people suffered heavy casualties, he considered himself responsible, and said in front of the president that he "felt that his hands were stained with blood", but President Truman said with contempt, this matter has nothing to do with you, and the person who gave the order is me! Gary Oldman, who plays the president, once again showed his superb acting skills, and only this scene also stole the limelight.
Oppenheimer's bad leader, Robert Downey Jr., is still a little worse than the old actors. Especially at the end when he is "incompetent and angry", the heat is a little too much, the emotions are not contained, a bit like an old lady who quarrels over trivial matters, although hated, but also a little rash. In front of the heavy feeling painstakingly created by the film, it is particularly abrupt.
In fact, the whole movie is like the product of the two movies "Making the Atomic Bomb" and "Post-War Trial" mixed together, "Making the Atomic Bomb" is more attractive, especially the scene of the nuclear explosion, unexpectedly silent, the audience holds their breath, and the cinema is silent. And the "post-war trial" is based on dialogue, and those who do not understand the Cold War, McCarthyism, the post-war world pattern, and the balance of terror will not know what to do.
I think three hours is a long time, I have to stand up and move a little halfway, I think a movie longer than two hours, should set up a intermission as in the past, but now the cinema does not have side halls, there is no space for rest.
Nevertheless, I recommend it. There are also many benefits to teaching teenagers such a lesson. The point of view of this article is objective, does not glorify the protagonist, and is not carried away by patriotism. Mankind's fear of nuclear war continues to the present and will continue into the future.