re: Oppenheimer is a good movie not a great movie

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Oppenheimer’s reaction to the use of bombs and the nuclear arms race.

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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…