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re: Oppenheimer is a good movie not a great movie
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:08 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:08 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
I mean a huge chunk of the movie was about the Manhattan Project itself. the actual logistics and clearance issue.
the relationship with the lover is significant in all that because Oppenheimer, the father of the bomb, almost got booted off the project because he went off and had an affair with a card carrying communist DURING the Manhattan Project.
but the stakes are explicitly stated, multiple times. Oppenheimer talks about the stakes for jews, he talks about how far ahead the Germans would be. they talk about how they’re researching heavy water and how we caught up to the Germans. Then the twist is we beat germany right around the time we develop these bombs.
I would say the concerns about the Nazis were heavily emphasized because the average viewer knows we dropped the bomb on Japan but may not know that our first concern was Germany.
then the last 3rd of the movie is dealing with Oppenheimer’s reaction to the use of bombs and the nuclear arms race.
the relationship with the lover is significant in all that because Oppenheimer, the father of the bomb, almost got booted off the project because he went off and had an affair with a card carrying communist DURING the Manhattan Project.
but the stakes are explicitly stated, multiple times. Oppenheimer talks about the stakes for jews, he talks about how far ahead the Germans would be. they talk about how they’re researching heavy water and how we caught up to the Germans. Then the twist is we beat germany right around the time we develop these bombs.
I would say the concerns about the Nazis were heavily emphasized because the average viewer knows we dropped the bomb on Japan but may not know that our first concern was Germany.
then the last 3rd of the movie is dealing with Oppenheimer’s reaction to the use of bombs and the nuclear arms race.
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:38 pm to SammyTiger
quote:I don’t think it should be understated, as it seemed to be in the film, just how sympathetic he was to the communist cause. I think there’s very little chance Oppenheimer works on the bomb if it was planned to be used on the soviets instead. So his stance about using the bombs in the future should be looked at through that lense as well, and although they did seem to acknowledge that some with the conversation he had at the dinner table after the bomb was dropped, the film seemed to give the impression his true feelings were those that he openly expressed in that he was ashamed of its destructive capabilities whenever it could be assumed, as some did at the time, that it wasn’t the damage the bomb did that scared him but the people it could potentially be used against. I’m still not convinced he wasn’t a communist, after all if something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Oppenheimer’s reaction to the use of bombs and the nuclear arms race.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 2:39 pm
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