Its Trinity-test sequence will blow you away. Its final act may leave you scratching your head.
It is true that, when at Berkeley in the ’30s, Oppenheimer, a multilingual polymath, studied Hindu texts in Sanskrit. It’s also true that he had an intense three-year affair with Tatlock, a psychiatrist and devoted Communist who died in 1944 by apparent suicide. But the fictionalized juxtaposition of these two facts in the context of an R-rated sex scene makes for an unintentionally comic interlude in an epic that, understandably given its subject, is otherwise short on humor.
is the most intimate movie the emotionally chilly Nolan has yet made. It tells the story of an event one character calls “the most important fucking thing to happen in the history of the world”—the development and first use of nuclear weapons in wartime—yet the action often seems to be taking place in the interior of one man’s prodigious and tormented brain.
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