Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer 


"They won't fear it until they understand it, and they won't understand it until they've used it."

The whole film is divided into sections, each section depicting the devotion of Oppenheimer to create the most powerful bomb known to mankind. 

After the successful test of a nuclear bomb, the American Army loads the bomb in the vehicle and leaves the site. When Oppenheimer gives a helpless look. The army officer smiles and says — “We will take it from here” — BUT we know everything is not good, the American Army is taking control of a weapon. The government and the politicians are in control of a weapon that can kill millions of people. Oppenheimer watches with a starring look, while the vehicles cross the barricades out of the site

"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

The film never shows what was the deeds and the consequences of bomb which eventually ended the war, but much of it emphasizes on the first detonation in a New Mexico desert called The White Sands. Oppenheimer succeeded in defeating the Nazis by the development of the destructive bomb, but in 1945, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered, causing Oppenheimer an eternal regret.

So the United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, ending the war in Japan instead.


“Some people laughed, some people cried but most of them were silent”

I was waiting for the explosion scene based on the hype Nolan gave before the movie's release. But the entire movie is like a ticking bomb, ready to explode anytime. The explosion scene just crossed as if that’s it — but the impact it creates in the subsequent next 40 mins of screen time is worth mentioning. The court trials, the testimony, and the chat Oppenheimer has with Strauss and the final moment with Albert Einstein — keeps you hooked till the last moment, the last frame of the movie

Thanks,
Gaurav

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