Breadlovers' Digest
2 min readDec 6, 2023

Movie:
Oppenheimer

Genre:
Biography,Drama, History

Plot:
The story of American scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

IMDB: ⭐8.5/10

Review:
For all the pre-discharge hypothesis about how simple legendary producer Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" would re-make the blast of the principal nuclear bomb, the film's most fabulous fascination ends up being something different: the human face.

This three or more hour account of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is a film turns around. They talk, a great deal. They tune in. They respond to great and awful news. Furthermore, some of the time they become mixed up in their own heads — none more so than the title character, the boss of the atomic weapons group at Los Alamos whose whole-world destroying commitment to science acquired him the moniker The American Prometheus (according to the title of Nolan's Primary source, the history by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman). Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema utilize the huge organization IMAX film framework not just to catch the wonder of New Mexico's desert displays however contrast the outside coolness and inner unrest of Oppenheimer, a splendid mathematician and calm player and pioneer whose indiscreet nature and voracious sexual hungers made his confidential life a catastrophe, and whose most prominent commitment to progress was a weapon that could obliterate it. Close-up after close-up shows star Cillian Murphy's face gazing into the center distance, off-screen, and at times straightforwardly into the focal point, while Oppenheimer separates from disagreeable connections, or gets lost inside recollections, dreams, and waking bad dreams. "Oppenheimer" rediscovers the force of immense closeups of individuals' countenances as they wrestle with what their identity is, and who others have concluded that they are, and how they've treated themselves as well as other people.