re: Oppenheimer | Official Reaction Thread | Spoilers

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I think this is definitely part of it...but also, I think a lot of people are going into it expecting 'The Manhattan Project' despite the title being 'Oppenheimer'. If you can let yourself be open to watch a movie about the man, then I think everyone who wanted science will see that the filmmakers used just enough science to show the audience the impact it had on Oppenheimer and the world. I think any more science would have been unnecessary to tell the story they wanted to tell.

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For what it's worth, I saw this in a particularly rural theater last night and the audience seemed riveted during the scenes depicting Oppenheimer's security clearance.

I feared that some people in the audience would find the narrative viewpoint that a Marxist fellow-traveler was hounded by the federal government a bit too much. ("I don't support no liberal, commie-worshipping movie." or whatnot.)

I think the theater had one person who left and never returned after those scenes, but everyone else seemed glued to their seats. It turned into a Alan Paukula-style 1970s political thriller, all of a sudden, and people were eating it up.