I think Oppenheimer might be in my top 3 Christopher Nolan films of all time. I've watched in twice now, and every element from the story to the performances and the filmmaking is absolute cinema. In this video, I discuss why I think Oppenheimer is a cinematic masterpiece. Hope you enjoy it!
@bikramarora1819
Жыл бұрын
@@JOK4AllTimeu have no attention span. Your TikTok brain needs constant action to be stimulated. The movie is called “Oppenheimer”, not the “Bomb”. If you went in expecting an action movie, that’s your fault. And don’t project your feelings of the movie onto others. This is already one of Nolan’s best reviewed films from audiences and critics alike.
@bikramarora1819
Жыл бұрын
@@JOK4AllTime your opinion is terrible borne out of your terrible media literacy. There’s a reason this movie was rated R, it’s because children or people who watch movies like children would end up having the same complaints that you do. In any case, your opinion on the movie is your opinion. But to project it onto others with the “many will walk away disappointed” onto others just highlights how smug and arrogant you are about your opinion. The box office, the audience scores(not just on rotten tomatoes, but everywhere) and the cinema score are all rating it amongst Nolan’s best. It’s one thing to not like a movie, it’s another to have no self awareness about your opinion being in the minority.
@bikramarora1819
Жыл бұрын
@@JOK4AllTime If it makes you feel any better, I’m more attacking your brand of film criticism than I am attacking you. If you feel offended, I apologize. Your opinion is terrible though. Not you. Your opinion. Whether it is a result of you having TikTok brain or because you have a low attention span or because you only watch movies for kids is up for assumption.
@jesustovar2549
Жыл бұрын
@@JOK4AllTime If it's better than Tenet, then I'm watching it, not that I hated Tenet, but I recognized it's not one of his best, I think Nolan can mature as a filmmaker. Were you really excited to see a reenactment of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions? If Nolan came up with that, the movie might have flopped in Japan. One question, how much is the level of patriotism and propaganda in this movie? just curious.
@ibacca5thgen348
Жыл бұрын
@@JOK4AllTime "we didn't even get to see the actual bombs dropped" is a crazy thing to say
@bikramarora1819
Жыл бұрын
That scene where that general didn’t want to bomb Kyoto because his wife and him vacationed there is far more haunting than any schmaltzy depiction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could’ve ever been. Nolan’s cold, precise, and technically focused style of filmmaking was the perfect fit for this movie.
@CortexVideos
Жыл бұрын
Thats a great point. The way he made decisions on sensitive stuff like that really blew me away too. He captured the truth of it all
@barry4649
Жыл бұрын
Fr I had a pit in my stomach when I heard that in the cinema and the scary thing is that’s not unfathomable that was a reason behind it
@rfcfanj7911
Жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure thats a true story
@Pajak-mg4jf
Жыл бұрын
It is good they didn’t bomb Kyoto though, regardless of how selfish the reason might have been.
@EstorilEm
Жыл бұрын
It is a true story, however they also had very limited target by that time. I’m VERY glad they mentioned the fire-bombings of Tokyo though, as more died that night than both atomic bombs combined - a chilling fact that hardly anyone realizes.
@nikkhilmukundala6201
Жыл бұрын
I think the use of black and white for Strauss’ POV has a double meaning as it also speaks to his limited worldview compared to that of Oppenheimer’s. Every aspect of this movie worked so well. I think this is Nolan at his best.
@Shadow-gm9ct
Жыл бұрын
“…The film is objective and subjective. The colour scenes are subjective; the black-and-white scenes are objective…” -Christopher Nolan, Total Film Magazine
@nikkhilmukundala6201
Жыл бұрын
@@Shadow-gm9ct Yeh I saw this too but I think there’s a few more layers to it than just that. Just my interpretation at least.
@mitchellfelder2420
Жыл бұрын
This was not a movie, this was an astonishingly brilliant work of art.
@Kaotix_music
Жыл бұрын
thats everything Christopher Nolan makes!
@modernmobster
Жыл бұрын
@gattodiossa6227 everything is a masterpiece to people these days. Theres no room for nuance. The movie had many flaws, but the echo chamber won't allow dissent.
@CharlesGoodwin-un7yf
Жыл бұрын
Almost never actually PERHAPS never Reply Too well "N e Thing" But 4 what Ever "if n e thing it's worth" Your/"This Comment" IS JUST AS IF NOT EVEN MORE SO AS ASTONISHINGLY BRILLIANT as the Movie Or RATHER WORK OF ART as you so eloquently put it un in 2 it self 👍
@grtcara8386
Жыл бұрын
Marvel fanboys were taking notes
@BRNRDNCK
Жыл бұрын
It was obviously a movie. Don’t say dumb things to sound profound
@vickyvanadium
Жыл бұрын
Emily blunt is now one of those actors whose one scene is enough in the movie to give you chills.
@modernmobster
Жыл бұрын
Her accent was terrible and she seemed completely unnatural in her delivery.
@patriciahirsch815
Жыл бұрын
Yes! Her look when she refuses to shake Teller's hand is so perfect-- loathing and dismissive!
@johnbernardzulueta2677
Жыл бұрын
@@patriciahirsch815I actually thought she will spit on his face lmao.
@ruslanrautiola7791
Жыл бұрын
So true! There were a few scenes in her testimony that were just jaw dropping but there were others that were just as great
@recordatron
Жыл бұрын
The scene where Oppenheimer was doing his speech about the "success" of the project and the use of the bombs was one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a while and will stick with me for years to come. The whole film was haunting and distressing but that scene in particular was so effective with the dissonance between what he was saying and actually thinking. It hit me especially hard because recent times have had me having nightmares about nuclear detonations. Absolute god tier film making from all involved.
@CortexVideos
Жыл бұрын
One of the best scenes from a nolan film in my opinion. Im actually doing a video on that scene next week. Totally agree and felt the same man
@life-hardenedschoolstudent2284
Жыл бұрын
@@CortexVideos In that scene we could notice that no one in the audience is someone that Oppenheimer knew, not one scientist that he worked with nor army officers that he coordinated with, all of them are new faces essentially a bunch of nobodies it encapsulates the alienation and isolation that Oppenheimer felt post-bomb perfectly well Coupled it with the dissonance he felt after he delivered the speech Indeed one of the most powerful scene in the film
@TheNapster153
Жыл бұрын
@@life-hardenedschoolstudent2284that scene after with the guy suffering acute radiation sickness struck me. Many of those who directly worked with Oppenheimer and were his closw friends all ended up living horrible lives after. From pushing the envelope of science to pushing railway tracks and becoming shutdown cases.
@Emmie.the.Kraken11
Жыл бұрын
The scene after where we see how the people who worked with him react will always stick with me. Yes they won the war, but the cost of what they’ve done isn’t lessened by that. They knew what they did, and they weren’t proud of it
@stumble9278
Жыл бұрын
Probably the best scene of the film. So insanely well composed, especially the sound. Something about the way it was edited just made that transition from extremely loud yelling to dead silence almost unnoticeable. Really really moving stuff
@barry4649
Жыл бұрын
That scene where he’s saying the speech in the basketball court saying anti-Japanese sentiments he doesn’t believe and imagining the audience as the victims of his bomb was absolutely haunting as was the ending which is so brilliant especially given the state of the world now with Putin acting like a man with nothing to lose more and more by the day
@samsaunders9487
Жыл бұрын
And to think leaders now like Putin and Kim Jong-Un wouldn't have had the resources of nuclear war without Oppenheimer inadvertently paving the way for better or worse.
@marloncebo242
Жыл бұрын
I don't really understand why people say this movie reflects on current events because the cold war has come and gone. The threat of nuclear war was always around but ever since north Korea has cooled their rhetoric war seems to have shifted to more economic warfare recently.
@barry4649
Жыл бұрын
@@marloncebo242 Putin threatened to Nuke the UK recently
@matwatson7947
Жыл бұрын
@@marloncebo242I agree. It's not really the same. The cold war was about one upping the others weapons whilst not technically being at war. Putin's war has nothing really to do with ideology. The whole Nazis in Ukraine and NATO is more of an effective smokescreen. It might a play a role but the bigger point is that Putin has always thought Ukraine should be part of Russia because of the USSR. Because of that reason I can't see any reason why he would use a nuclear device to ruin the place he wants to invade. If he were to nuke cities any country in NATO I doubt they would nuke back Combined they have more than enough firepower to defeat the military might of Russia over the course of a long weekend. Also. Even if he did order the nukes to be fired I doubt that order would be followed through. I just don't think his military is that stupid.
@squirlmy
Жыл бұрын
That's incredibly naive. Your reassured by N Korea's rhetoric? Really? And you do know Pakistan and India also have nukes, right? Things haven't cooled down and Putin is playing games with a nuclear reactor in Ukraine as we speak. Did you learn nothing from the movie?
@chrish2277
Жыл бұрын
Every actor in this film deserves an award. Not a miscasting in the bunch.
@folcwinep.pywackett8517
Жыл бұрын
True! Every actor in this film, gives an astonishing performance, even the minor roles.
@lihd123
Жыл бұрын
The adulation he receives with thumping of the footsteps when he gives his victory speech after the bombing comes back to haunt him! This was some remarkable piece of direction. I don't know if Oppenheimer had such nightmares but the mastery of Christopher Nolan is that he has transferred the nightmares of Oppenheimer to every movie watcher. The background score especially just before the trinity test is another masterpiece on aggravating the already tense moment! A brilliant piece of work all round. Also the scene where he appears naked before the committee hearing a metaphor for being stripped of his dignity is just so unnerving. The sliminess of RD Jr's character is also another superb study on human nature.
@Homesicktraveler
Жыл бұрын
The sound design was incredible. I was genuinely marveled by it at times.
@akasuki9614
Жыл бұрын
Same! The music,the dialogues and everything else was absolutely fantastic
@samfisher2306
Жыл бұрын
RDJ's performance is definitely Oscar worthy. He brings a realistic villain to life. Villains are usually misrepresented in movies as a monster holding a dagger. But in reality,they wear suites & ties and are driven by a motive to legitimately annihilate an opponent.
@MuayThai_Don
Жыл бұрын
I think Cillian deserves it more
@dasupertramp5855
Жыл бұрын
@MuayThai_Capo It's not "either- or". Murphy is the lead actor, Downey a supporting actor.
@samsaunders9487
Жыл бұрын
@samfisher2306 I agree I predict Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor and Robert Downey Jr. Wins Best Supporting Actor plus Score, Sound, Director, and even Best Picture nominations at least.
@MuayThai_Don
Жыл бұрын
@@dasupertramp5855 I know the roles. I'm just saying Cillian's performance is more oscar worthy, not that RDJ's wasn't. If only one of them could win, I think it should be Cillian.
@msantos7755
Жыл бұрын
He completely inhabited that character--and disappeared into it!
@jayceh
Жыл бұрын
Every scene felt like it took a year to write and shoot. The perfect film.
@samf.s.7731
Жыл бұрын
I like that Strauss's entire motivation is that he thought Oppenheimer has somehow turned Einstein against him... Like, get out of your head bro you're not *that* important. Alden Ehrenreich's character just says it to his face 😂 and it felt oh so satisfying
@AeroZephron
Жыл бұрын
It's difficult to rate it against other films that we'd consider a 10, but for what it is and what it's accomplished - 10/10 is what I have to give it.
@swaydaygaming7571
Жыл бұрын
Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises were my favorite endings of Nolan’s but think Oppenheimer has taken that spot now. Unforgettable profound and powerful emotion from Cillian at the end
@samsaunders9487
Жыл бұрын
Since I saw this I've debated what was Nolan's best between Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight it was TDK but Oppenheimer to me might've just surpassed it.
@TheGoodGman95
Жыл бұрын
agreed, hunting and eerie
@tooglianprimus15
Жыл бұрын
The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Dunkirk, and Oppenheimer are Nolan’s best endings imo
@tawis01
Жыл бұрын
I watched this movie 2 days in a row at the theater. I have never done that before. I want to see it again, this time in imax.
@007ndc
Жыл бұрын
This movie is Christopher Nolan's Opus. I'm still recovering from the movie after a week..Shortest three hour movie ever. Can't wait to see it again
@Prodbyjah464
Жыл бұрын
I think an underrated aspect of Chris Nolan’s movies is that he’s able to make dialogue and exposition seem so natural and engaging, especially in inception for example there are various scenes through montage or not where multiple characters are talking in a room but through the camera techniques, score and performances they feel extremely important, and for a film that’s 3 hours and mainly comprised of dialogue, I think this is the best example of that effect yet.
@lidarman2
Жыл бұрын
I loved it. And the biggest message I got was nobody wins in this...and is a metaphor of using nuclear weapons themselves. It has a fractal plot and also a quantum mechanical one in the sense that there was contradictory situations at the same time.
@travisgray8376
Жыл бұрын
This is my now favourite Christopher Nolan film it's a masterpiece.
@samf.s.7731
Жыл бұрын
I actually think it has a decent shot of being my favorite film written and directed by Nolan. It's that "grounded in reality" feature its got to it which uniquely positions it for that spot. Nolan gets a lot of flack for writing films that are "up their own arse", hence, he has a lot of criticism directed at him. This one is an adaptation, and he doesn't use gimmicks anywhere. I am very consciously aware of the cameos, but I really couldn't care less for the cameos because the two main performances in this film (With the supporting one!) are just gold and were more than enough to elevate this film to the high highs it managed to hit. I don't hate the cameos, but I think they're just there as a testament to how Nolan is revered in the industry for being a visionary filmmaker who, oddly enough, also manages to capture the attention of "just casual movie goers". I get that he's "Too OP" so people have grown accustomed to bashing him or discrediting his work, sometimes rather blatantly and in an unfair manner. Personally, I don't like all his films, sometimes he *does* need someone to tell him no, but his work is exceptional for the most part.
@thomaswayne1852
Жыл бұрын
Saw it last night. Fully engaged throughout. Completely immersed til the very end. Highly recommend.
@nikopursiainen9097
Жыл бұрын
One of the lessons I drew from the movie, especially from the Strauss/Oppenheimer/Einstein scenes was how our self centered interpretations on the events we live through can lead us to paths that undermine and even destroy our own future.
@darksister6661
Жыл бұрын
Loved the video. Admire Nolan for capturing a time in history that remains as powerful now as then. I've always thought that the bombing of both Heroshima and Nagasaki should never have happened. Overkill in the most brutal way. &Is the story timely ? Now more than ever... an important history lesson.... and warning.
@soulpath1
Жыл бұрын
the ending of this film is my fav of all Nolan films by far. The way he made it so profoundly resonant in the form of a connection to a small interpersonal interaction with basically his nemesis is for some reason sooooooo powerful. Maybe smooene can explain why it felt so powerful here? I dunno how to explain it lol
@baconjakin4442
Жыл бұрын
It’s because it’s real. This film has a unique relationship with the viewer due to the fact that the story being told affects all of us, rather intimately.
@ARusso1192
Жыл бұрын
Saw it opening day and still can't stop thinking about it
@LucasTheNuisance
Жыл бұрын
Immediately after seeing the movie I went home and put on Can You Hear The Music and cried because it was so beautiful. The way the song speeds up again and again really match the theme of chain reactions, yet the strings that hold the piece together give a feeling of curiosity and wonder.
@ch3wb4cc4
Жыл бұрын
This movie is so f*** good. It really is a masterpiece
@sebbvell3426
Жыл бұрын
Oppenheimer box office opening was 80 million dollars that makes it one of the opening weekend for a Christopher Nolan movie 🎉🎉🎉.
@BrianM2000
Жыл бұрын
I saw Oppenheimer on Saturday and Barbie the day after an epic weekend I'll never forget happy to see movie fans unite with both films
@mikey4483
Жыл бұрын
So glad u gave Jason Clarke a mention. I thought he gave a fantastic performance.
@LR11306
Жыл бұрын
I just got back from a second viewing. Saw it once in 70MM film, once in digital IMAX. I didn't actually like it that much at first viewing, despite having read American Prometheus, and loving Christopher Nolan. It was just a lot to take in! BUT, during the second viewing, I loved every second. The 3 hours flew by, quicker than I wanted. It all made sense. I actually caught the soundtrack and could appreciate it. I HIGHLY recommend everyone commit to seeing it twice in theaters, at least once in IMAX, before forming your opinion. I am really glad I did. The sound alone is worth it in IMAX. It shakes the seats and truly had my heart pounding through a few scenes and goosebumps in others.
@Kuantatmeng709394
Жыл бұрын
I came in to this showing knowing how a passionate scientist could never have a proper conversation with a politician about morality and we scientist need to always remember the dire consequences of certain research… and i came out mind blown by the performances and yes, that scene where strauss ask to draw the radius of the bombing at their own turf instead of the enemy, is that kind of mind games a plitician will use
@stuart1346
Жыл бұрын
Having to wait a full week to see it on Friday 🥺 but I’m watching a couple of Nolan films in the meantime to get me in the mood for some awesome filmmaking.
@CortexVideos
Жыл бұрын
Have fun watching! This video has spoilers by the way, just thought I'd let you know. But I did do a spoiler free review two days ago on the channel.
@zzsofi1552
Жыл бұрын
First movie ever I’m planning to see again in cinema after I’ve already seen it. 🔥
@Wolfenstein69924
Жыл бұрын
Oppenheimer has definitely taken a spot as one of Nolan's best. I smell a lot of Oscars coming next year. However, same problem I had with Tenet, I was not a fan of how heavy the dialogue and the background noise was, because of this there were quite a few lines I didn't understand. The Dark Knight is still his very best film in my opinion.
@samiali541
Жыл бұрын
Must’ve been your theaters problem. I saw it in 70mm (not imax) and the sound mixing was great
@samsaunders9487
Жыл бұрын
@Wolfenstein69924 I agree about the issues with dialogue and before I saw this I held the opinion that The Dark Knight was Nolan's best film but now to me it might be second now to Oppenheimer.
@vn5774
Жыл бұрын
Lol I've seen it twice and there were no issues with the audio
@roxy5588
9 ай бұрын
Oppenheimer is a 10/10. It was perfection. By far Nolan's Best film. This should sweep the Oscars in 2024.
@BruceLeanDarts
Жыл бұрын
Can't wait to finally see this movie in a couple days. I'll be back for this video! Just dropping a like and a comment for the algorithm 💪 Thank you so much for the coverage of this film ❤️
@CortexVideos
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure man amd thank you. I hope you enjoy the film!
@BruceLeanDarts
Жыл бұрын
@@CortexVideos I'm sure I will!
@john-the-cook
Жыл бұрын
I'm going to blow your mind now: The movie "Oppenheimer is a prequel to the movie"Sunshine ". Both starring Cillian Murphy as nuclear bomb building mastermind.... 😉😎
@hufemeve
Жыл бұрын
a cinematic masterpiece indeed. BTW Am I alone in saying that after halfway through the movie, the entire development of the plot isn't about Oppenheimer at all, but rather on how the World was sought out to take ownership of "Trinity" in one way or another? anyways, it is truly Nolan's best work to date without a doubt.
@HelenHall-t1f
Жыл бұрын
I haven't seen the movie yet, but my career includes 24 years in nuclear weapons testing, with my last 3 years of that working for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. I'll get back to you after I've seen the movie.
@4729Punisher
Жыл бұрын
I'm not going to lie. My wife and I fell asleep in the vibrating recliner seats for the first hour. Nothing seemed to be happening aside from multiple conversations. Then the bomb lite up the theater and boom 💥 I was finally awake.
@goated3285
Жыл бұрын
😂same
@lindsayglenn9611
Жыл бұрын
did I see another hand pushing jean Matlock head into the bath or was I seeing thing ?
@bobbasseyjnr240
Жыл бұрын
I think that was oppie imagining himself doing it. He blamed himself for her death, so that scene was a metaphor or so I think
@arielleaboulafia1162
Жыл бұрын
There are a number of suspicious circumstances surrounding Jean’s death that have led people to speculate that her death was actually a homicide. The US government was spying on Jean and other communists and some speculate that the government murdered her.
@lindsayglenn9611
Жыл бұрын
@@bobbasseyjnr240 ahh ok ! thought it might of been alluding to there being foul play
@dittonara
Жыл бұрын
There is a conspiracy theory that she was killed by intellegence agency
@danielderrick7383
Жыл бұрын
Didn't even realise that Waa Gary Oldman until you said it!
@travisgray8376
Жыл бұрын
Christopher Nolan's best film a masterpiece
@superdopehiphop
Жыл бұрын
Saw Oppenheimer 70 MM IMAX sneak peak Tuesday before it came out and imo it was a flat out MASTERPIECE! I’ve been to 1500 or so movies since mid 80s and this was undoubtedly in the top5-10% I’ve seen (Top75-150). I say this as someone who likes most of Nolan films but only loved Dark Knight in terms of an all time masterpiece (Batman begins, Inception, Prestige, Dunkirk my personal next favorite but only Tenet was “bad”).
@Computerlegacy
Жыл бұрын
That was Gary Oldman 🤯
@f8talfury
Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure how Nolan can top this. Imo this is Nolan’s best film.
@Hakiimthedream
Жыл бұрын
my favorite scene is when Einstein hands back the chain reaction calculations and says something like “this is not my battle”
@Glotaku
Жыл бұрын
People are glazing Nolan here, the film is great but it’s definitely no where near his best. This movie had moments of spine chilling excellence but as a whole the pacing is not ideal
@samkohen4589
Жыл бұрын
As good as this film is a better production is the 1980 PBS eight part series on American Playhouse Oppenheimer. It is quite simply superb and available on KZitem
@folcwinep.pywackett8517
Жыл бұрын
Just saw this 3 hour film and I fully agree, OPPENHEIMER Is A Masterpiece, but Cortex Videos review here is itself a masterpiece review! Bravo! To think that a movie of this length which is composed almost entirely of talking could be this riveting, that I never once felt the bottom of my seat. There is no linear time in this story, but it blasts a hole in your mind and heart and you feel what the man was actually feeling. Masterpiece might be too tame a word for a story structure this original which seems to be a new genre of art.
@jennifersmall4027
9 ай бұрын
Betrayal is also an ongoing theme. Oppenheimer betrayed his wife and in turn was betrayed by his colleagues.
@jeromethomas8857
Жыл бұрын
I agree it’s a masterpiece. I just got home from seeing it.
@olemartinjansson2242
11 ай бұрын
Should’ve mentioned Casey Afflecks amazing portrayal of Boris Pash
@ushnishbhattacharyya6672
Жыл бұрын
Cortex, if you are reading this, I want to ask something... *SPOILER ALERT🚨* In some scenes, it's hard to believe that it's not CGI, like when a quantum wave vibrates in front of Oppenheimer when he's sleeping, when the world is burning, clouds on fire, rocket is being launched... How come these are not CGI?
@Tephankid
Жыл бұрын
Great Video
@badgirlwhippet4275
Жыл бұрын
So happy watched it opening night it was lit that big moment aswell 😮mind blowing so good i also like how ir wasent just about the Manhattan project but about his life so good
@karenweaver7574
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for review, love everything I am heading. Just finished the book and I miss him, weird but true.
@esterhudson5104
Жыл бұрын
R u telling me a woman edited this film? The editing is one of the genius aspects of it. It is the urgent pace of the film…bravo lady!!
@daffy5163
Жыл бұрын
If you think Oppenheimer is cinematic masterwork, you should watch "Come and See".
@ArnoldTohtFan
Жыл бұрын
_Oppenheimer_ has a highly literate script with important ideas and powerful dramatic situations, striking visuals without digital hokum, and decent performances from a vast cast. It is the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American-born Jewish physicist who directed the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb. He is not portrayed as a stainless hero or a martyr. He's complicated. His genius is elusive. If you think atomic physics is hard to understand, imagine dramatizing it on the screen in tiny snippets. There is no doubt, though, that Oppenheimer was neurotic, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, and at best morally stunted. Early in the film, he tries to murder one of his teachers over a minor humiliation. Moral qualms only occur to him the next morning. After Hiroshima, Oppenheimer is clearly high on the acclaim of his colleagues. He delivers a little speech and begins clinically. It is too early to evaluate the effects of dropping an atomic bomb on a city full of people, but he's “sure the Japanese don't like it.” Hardy-har-har. “Too bad they couldn't have dropped it on the Germans.” Nolan uses his cinematic wizardry to intimate that Oppenheimer and his team had intense moral qualms about this, but I don't buy it. Nolan's mind clearly operates within normie parameters, but still, he has never been subservient to political correctness. There are a few black characters in his films cast against type. In Nolan's film, they are mostly wildly out of place faces in the crowd. All the main characters here are white or Jewish. In Dunkirk, Nolan made a Second World War film that only referred to “the enemy.” Not zee Germans. Not zee Nazis. He had plenty of opportunity to deliver the standard platitudes, but instead he made a touchingly patriotic movie about the British returning home. The Nazis loom larger this time around, but Nolan still foregoes cheap shots. When Oppenheimer says that the Nazis are “abusing” his people, this is historically realistic, but every other director would have juiced it up considerably. When Oppenheimer says that he hopes that “anti-Semitism” will impede German atom bomb research, the moral is not that Hitler chased away all the genius Jewish physicists. Oppenheimer knew the Germans had formidable thinkers such as Werner Heisenberg. But because Hitler regarded atomic physics as Jewish abstraction, he didn't give the matter the attention it deserved. Nobody could make a film about Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project without mentioning Jews. Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Isidore Isaac Rabi, Robert Serber, Lilli Hornig, Richard Feynman, and Leo Szilard were all Jewish. Oppenheimer's brother Frank, Albert Einstein, and Admiral Lewis Strauss are other Jewish characters. It is interesting, though, that Nolan depicts Jewish tribal animus against the Germans as a major motive of the Manhattan Project. Indeed, when Germany surrendered, a number of these figures suddenly developed moral reservations about using the bomb on Japan. The film leaves their motives murky. Clearly, some saw themselves as fighting _against_ Germany rather than _for_ America. Once Germany was down, they lost interest in the war. Others, perhaps, had moral qualms about dropping the bomb on non-whites, but were okay with dropping it on whites. The Manhattan Project was also riddled with Soviet spies, such as Klaus Fuchs, and once Germany surrendered, their priority would have been to slow down the American nuclear program until the Soviets could catch up. Oppenheimer himself accepted the Pentagon rationale for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that it would end the war quicker, save lives, and bring our boys home. He refused to sign petitions against bombing Japan, arguing that it was not the role of scientists to choose how the weapons they developed were used. Oppenheimer had no personal reasons for wanting to bomb Japan. He had already tested an atomic bomb in New Mexico, proving the effectiveness of both the weapon and his leadership. Unless, of course, he was curious to test his weapon on human subjects. After the war, Oppenheimer apparently grew a conscience, opposing the development of the hydrogen bomb and promoting arms control talks and global government schemes. Once again, his motives were murky, but it did not go unnoticed that his recommendations aligned with Soviet strategic interests. Nor did it go unnoticed that Oppenheimer was at the very least a Communist fellow traveler; a pinko, if not an outright red. His brother and sister-in-law were Communist Party members, and his wife and mistress were also card-carrying Communists, as were some of his colleagues and friends at Berkeley. Trailing behind the party members was a long tail of fellow-travelers and sympathizers. Nolan dutifully depicts the standard lies and evasions of the reds and pinkos: they were idealists, they were humanitarians, they were New Deal Democrats. They were anything, really, except willing conspirators working for the triumph of the most asinine and murderous ideology in human history. Nolan shows us that Oppenheimer was approached by a Soviet agent through a friend on the Berkeley faculty. Only belatedly did he reveal this to the military, and when he did, he lied about his intermediary. Oppenheimer was, moreover, cavalier about security at Los Alamos. The man was obviously a security risk, but the American government tolerated him because he was useful to the war effort. But after the war, when he became an obstruction to the H-bomb program, his security clearance was revoked and he was sidelined. The story of Oppenheimer's post-war travails is the weakest part of the movie, cutting back and forth between his security clearance hearing and a Senate hearing about the (ultimately failed) appointment of Admiral Strauss to the Eisenhower cabinet. A more conventional filmmaker would have depicted Oppenheimer as the innocent victim of an anti-Communist “witch hunt.” Oppenheimer could not be depicted as a victim of anti-Semitism because his principal opponents, Strauss and Teller, were both Jewish. Nolan, however, teases out the full moral complexity of the situation. Although he handles it all with great dynamism, he bloats the running-time of the movie to three hours. In this case, I think that Nolan got too close to the material, and his dramatic instincts fail him. Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, and Dunkirk all have emotionally shattering conclusions, but _Oppenheimer_ is emotionally flaccid and flabby. If he had ended the film with the bombing of Japan, the emotional impact could have been measured in kilotons, but 40 minutes of hearing drama turns it into a damp squib.
@landon4351
Жыл бұрын
There is a real subtle hint to our human ancestory and power made through imaging and sound with his famous quote being from ancient text that when read in real life for the audience to learn about nuclear war hapening in the bar a gee ta (phe ne tic ) exsited As well as a nod to real genious exists in the cosmos and human downfall happens when politics strangle our capabilities
@Dawnson134
Жыл бұрын
Excellent
@anngo4140
Жыл бұрын
Shiet I realized now it's no wonder Oppenheimer was not in favor of informing Truman about the H bomb after having that first awkward meeting in the oval office.
@NormaLilia24
Жыл бұрын
5:42 If you know you know
@DeepDishPizza
Жыл бұрын
It’s a masterpiece. For three hours, I was back in the 40s. Amazing. Seeing it for third time today.
@anthonygross1963
Жыл бұрын
You should get an Oscar for sitting through this hot mess two times.😂
@DeepDishPizza
Жыл бұрын
@@anthonygross1963 it’s not a hot mess at all. It’s fantastic. It’s not my fault that you’re a Nolan hater!!!!
@robertpetre9378
Жыл бұрын
E equals MC Square, you can relate , how we built God with our hands - Iron Maiden ,brighter than a thousand suns.
@XstonedmonkeyzX
Жыл бұрын
10:48 Honestly In my opinion, Downey isn't really showing anything "unique" here, like he did in past roles... It feels like he's bringing a bit of Tony Stark into this role lol...
@samsaunders9487
Жыл бұрын
I agree 💯 about it being a masterpiece and to me one of the greatest films I've ever seen. There are only two things I would've done differently: first as a Linkin Park fan I would've used an Easter egg of their interlude The Requiem/Radiance. Secondly I would've added Oppenheimer's speech as the last scene.
@sophiesoprano
Жыл бұрын
It is not a US tragedy, it is a Japan tragedy..
@connectedonline1060
Жыл бұрын
Sound of freedom also
@TheGeeko505
Жыл бұрын
Expectations were set very high but were not met. I fell asleep in the middle of it. Call me a phillistine, but just cause Nolan uses IMAX and adds a heavy bass to amp up the intensity doesn't mean it's going to be epic. Good acting, good cinematography, overall good film, but nothing emotionally captured me to call it a masterpiece.
@victorgonza4528
Жыл бұрын
Hanz Zimmer Dark knight is the best Nolans movie score .
@mattlewis2168
Жыл бұрын
No shoutout to Matt Damon?? Matt damon…
@WawanWawan-xn7oh
Жыл бұрын
Masterpiece Manuscript movie real Activating worlds.
@TF2ReplayMaker
Жыл бұрын
Also, crazy how the fact that it was literally used twice is just accepted as a part of history and moved on from. But if you really sit down and think about it its extremely messed up. With the way Putin has been going about things... That ending is terrifyingly haunting
@danielkeenan1984
Жыл бұрын
Feel they could of shown Japan 🇯🇵 a little or a little of the pacific war to give an idea of why it was necessary to use the bomb.
@yanaantonio42
Жыл бұрын
Hum, no. Interstellar’s score is way superior. I’m sorry. 😂 I now Zimmer was busy with Dune, I’ll forever wonder what he would’ve done.
@icomarv17
Жыл бұрын
What would have made a masterpiece is visually seeing the violent removal of the natives and larino population taht was living on the land where the tests took place. A simple reference of them as "indians" is jot enough. 8/10
@sit-insforsithis1568
Жыл бұрын
It’s called OPPENHEIMER not Indians 😂
@markthompson9754
Жыл бұрын
The subject matter is vastly compelling for many many reasons. Criticizing the use of the bomb over Japan is not one of them. The Island nation of Imperial Japan waged war for over 500 years leading up to their just fate. They subsequently became a functioning healthy democracy and never waged war since. We should use the bomb more.
@sit-insforsithis1568
Жыл бұрын
still, America is the only country in the world who ever nukes one civilian city. Sorry , it was 2
@robbie_
9 ай бұрын
Sorry, it's not a masterpiece. It's just short of one. The main reason is the usual Nolan issue: he knows the script, knows what the actors are saying but quite often doesn't think we need to know. He knows for us. Same sound problems as Interstellar. Mumbling actors, music too loud, voices too quiet.
@benquinneyiii7941
Жыл бұрын
Severely punished
@maryjohnson6796
Жыл бұрын
Robert Downey jr is spectacularly evil.
@magnushoumann-hammer3558
Жыл бұрын
Wasnt it 70mm?
@kellyja8
Жыл бұрын
The first two hours were outstanding. The third hour really dragged. Maybe he just should have made two films, ending the the first film with the end of WW2, and then a second film devoted to the security hearing....
@natural
Жыл бұрын
It was a good film. But has some flaws.. it’s far from a masterpiece.. I think their marketing campaign really made ppl think they’re watching something very unique. Wait a year and look back and you’ll realize you’ve been dupped
@sailexw6414
Жыл бұрын
Anyone else utterly unconvinced and distracted by the two love stories in this movie? I don't understand what the nudity adds, and there is nearly zero chemistry between the actor and both actresses.
@nikolajkrarup-os9gn
Жыл бұрын
It's such a shame that Christopher Nolan chickened out and didn't put attention to the most important :the horrors of the actual bombings and the catastrophic consequences instead of focusing on the fate of poor little Oppenheimer. He could have done it but probably didn't dare. Americans entered the war very late and ended it very easy by killing 200000 innocent Japanese. That's the goddamn truth. They didn't have to but they did. Just as they did when they made the worst genocide in history. Worse than holocaust. By wiping out allmost the entire population of native Americans. Followed by slavery and apartheid of black people up until the nineteen sixties. Then Vietnam disaster which they lost. And lately Afghanistan and Iraq disasters. All wars they lost at the cost of hundred of thousands innocent lives. They don't learn anything from it and continue their stupidity. Thinking they can bomb their way to peace. Even though it's abundantly clear that it's not possible and allways makes things worse. Nonetheless the madness continues. Masshotings happens on a regular basis because of your insane 'right to bear arms' idiocy that make it possible for any idiot to buy a gun so they can kill people. Wake up morons!
@landon4351
Жыл бұрын
This film is way misunderstood This is a message to humans that politics is a choke on humanity and science is not the final answer You all missed it
@JimiJames
Жыл бұрын
You thought the never ending one note pacing of every shot on screen for less than 3 seconds for the entirety of the movie was a masterpiece? K.
@aamirkhanday7552
Жыл бұрын
Whole movie seemed like a trailer😕
@nikolajkrarup-os9gn
Жыл бұрын
The Prestige is a great movie too. All his movies are at least good. But it's gone downhill lately. Dunkirk I haven't seen. But both Tenet and Oppenheimer is not up to the standard of his best moveis. A shame because he is one of the few instructors in the Hollywood dream factory who make interesting movies compared to the usual extremely predictable action bullshit movies. I hope he get back on track.
@raulduke6105
Жыл бұрын
It’s no masterpiece but it’s very good but very long. Imax is a rip off. The a bomb explosion is not very impressive. CM and RDJ are Oscar worthy
@nikolajkrarup-os9gn
Жыл бұрын
I just saw it and I'm not that exited. To be honest I don't understand what a all the fuss is about. It's a good movie but far from the best Christopher Nolan has made. Inception and interstellar is far better in my opinion. They spend way to much time on things that happened to Oppenheimer after they tested the bomb. The actual fatal atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki you didn't saw and it was barely mentioned. You didn't saw anything from that bombing at all. That's a big mistake. But great acting especially fromCillian Murphy and Robert Downey. Jr.
@strongbrain3128
Жыл бұрын
No matter how excellent you or oppenheimer perform(ed) your or his job, if you are or he was labeled as commie or commie related, as dead as you can be or he could be, welcome to the USA!
@whit350z2
Жыл бұрын
best movie i've ever seen
@SinghKushalOmprakash
Жыл бұрын
I wasn't happy with the scene where they showed a sexual act in the presence of Bhagwat Gita, would Nolan have shown the same scene in presence of a Bible?
@bobbasseyjnr240
Жыл бұрын
Hollywood has done worse to Christianity, BTW what if that was exactly what oppie did, would you dig him up and shoot him? It's a movie, let it be
@seanowens1006
Жыл бұрын
I must have been watching a completely different movie. It might have been one of the most boring movies i think I've ever seen. Very scattered with little character development especially for a three hour movie.
@joesmith201212
Жыл бұрын
The movie was so boring and way too long I regret seeing it... I almost wished I saw barbie instead keyword almost
@seanowens1006
Жыл бұрын
Truth! Three hours stolen from our lives (though it felt more like six)
@jordanhenshaw
Жыл бұрын
I watched the entire video. I said out loud the word, "No" about 63 different times throughout. I disagreed with almost everything you said. From a screenwriting perspective, I do not think this is a masterpiece, not even close. Here's why. Each of the following 10 questions from screenwriting fundamentals class has a maximum of 10 points. Oppenheimer scores an abysmal 25%. Interstellar scores a 90%, Chernobyl score 93%, Wall-E scores 100%, and my own recent script scores a pretty terrible 69%. Here are the questions: Did it make me care? No. How many climaxes are there? None, except for the bomb, and we already know it went ok. Are all plot points about a single, central thematic question? Definitely not. Is there a lot of juxtaposition? No, just a few short, well crafted instances. Is it about small, social relationships? No, there's a little bit, but it's not fleshed out or terribly clear. Is there a clear beginning, middle, and end? Yes. Could something really bad have easily happened? No. We already know the Earth doesn't burn up and that the bomb worked. Does each scene directly cause the next scene? No. Definitely not. Did it surprise me? No. Did I believe it was really happening? At times. Damon's character and the nude girl character were very poorly written and zero chemistry between her and Oppy. Some of these are subjective, but most aren't. At the end of the day, Oppenheimer should have been 2 hours long, should have had much more juxtaposition, should have had much more show don't tell, should have had much clearer, fleshed out characters, should have had much clearer, much more threatening stakes that could actually come to pass, should have been much, much more focused on a singular thematic question, should have been more focused on human relationships under the guise of an epic story, and should have spent much more time explaining the physics rather than shoving little fragments of it in front of our faces here and there with virtually no real explanation. The Oppenheimer was not a masterpiece. Not even close. It's actually very sloppily written from a technical storytelling perspective. We know how to write better scripts. We know how to do it. This isn't it.
@jordanhenshaw
Жыл бұрын
These questions aren't what most people would use to rate a film, but try it out yourself. Two stories, the HBO Chernobyl series and the Pixar film Wall-E. They could not be further from each other in tone, format, type of media, intended audience, technology, maturity, and genre. They're polar opposites. But they both score exceptionally high on these test questions. The Dark Knight, exceptionally high. Inception, fairly high. Batman Begins, exceptionally high. TDKR, exceptionally high. Interstellar, exceptionally high. Dunkirk, piss poor. Tenet, piss poor. Oppenheimer, piss poor. What do all the three latest Nolan films have in common that the others don't? Nolan wrote them alone. And they all score piss poor on this test. Nolan is not a great screenwriter. He's a great director.
@anthonygonzalezzzzz
Жыл бұрын
WRONG
@nickgustin6944
Жыл бұрын
It was a refreshing experience to not be able to guess every fuckin thing that happens in the film because smooth brains like yourself always need a painfully basic storytelling structure. We’ve seen the story you want a billion times. You really wanted it to be about his relationships? 😂 Why? 😂 and it didn’t make you care? Were you so mad about the fact there isn’t a tangible antagonist that spews out one liners and witty remarks that you didn’t even pay attention? I really hope this movie changes the landscape and people don’t feel they have to cram their story into your algorithm to be successful. Matt Damon’s character was weird, and the interrogation/sex scene was weird because we had seen him have hallucinations but that was implied to be a vision of his wife, not him. But other than that just say you have no attention span or ability to grasp something you haven’t seen a thousand times under a different name.
@jordanhenshaw
Жыл бұрын
@@anthonygonzalezzzzz Look, I appreciate all your enthusiasm and thoughts, but I don’t have time to read your 200,000-word book on the issue.
@nickgustin6944
Жыл бұрын
@@jordanhenshaw yeah you do. You read it already you just have nothing to say in response. Clown
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