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re: Oppenheimer is deeply flawed.
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:08 am to MrBarry
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:08 am to MrBarry
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but by the end of the movie, you find out the conversation wasn't about him at all. It was about something more important than Strauss all together.
The real dramatic arc of Oppenheimers post-war life was his meeting with Truman. He protested the development of the H-bomb and Truman basically told him GFY. That should have been the climax of the movie. The Strauss story was secondary to that and given Nolan’s knack with temporal structure, the Strauss story could have still been told as a coda presented in flashforwards without the big reveal being a misunderstood conversation between Einstein and Oppenheimer.
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Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:11 am to HueyLongJr
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The Strauss story was secondary to that
The movie is about Oppenheimer's rise and fall. It wasn't just about the development of the atomic bomb. Strauss was the man most instrumental in the downfall of J. Robert Oppenheimer, hence why his story is hardly secondary at all. It was Oppenheimer's opposition to the development of the H-bomb which cost him in the end.
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