Oppenheimer is a meaningful film but too long and slow to tell the torturous journey of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who created the Atomic Bomb. In the beginning, caring about Dr. Oppenheimer portrayed excellently by Cillian Murphy is difficult due to the focus on technical scientific terms necessitated because of the topic of quantum physics. I do not enjoy the study of science, but this does not mean I do not honor its importance, so I’m not the best one to care about this topic, but I do care about the man and I would like to have seen more in the beginning about his character. By the end, your heart throbs for Dr. Robert Oppenheimer’s suffering and the role of the government in his attempted demise, but he triumphs if you can sit through the film. Director Christopher Nolan has made the sound a disturbing character. When the bomb created by Dr. Oppenheimer is dropped there is silence, which is not what are expecting. And throughout the film, there are bizarre moments where the sound actually drowns out the dialogue. The cast is aces and star-studded, and for some unknown reason looks older than most of the stars are today. Christopher Nolan does not like to light stars to look good At the beginning of the film Emily Blunt, a great beauty looks quite haggard and the list can go on and on. Matt Damon whose acting is always superb is a bit difficult to look at. Of course, his gain in weight doesn’t help. Kenneth Branagh in a smaller part and Remi Malek almost steal the film, and Robert Downey, Jr., excels in his role as Lewis Strauss, who turns against Dr. Oppenheimer and tries to destroy him due to Dr. Oppenheimer's fears of what he has created with the atomic bomb, and that it could destroy civilization. But I feel that director Nolan, who also wrote the film and has been nominated for five Academy Awards and six Golden Globes misses on this film. He uses black-and-white for the future and sound as a character, and special visual effects when the bomb is dropped therefore throughout the film, I felt manipulated when the real story is about a brilliant man, who cared about civilization and grew to be ambivalent about his creation of the atomic bomb once it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Robert Downey, Jr., represents the government's, interest in creating the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project, When Dr. Oppenheimer regrets the consequences of the possible end of civilization due to his creation of this bomb. Robert Downey, Jr., turns on Dr. Oppenheimer and tries to blacklist him as a communist to destroy his powerful fame and voiced fears about what Dr. Oppenheimer has created. President Truman (Gary Oldman) even says to his secretary after meeting with Dr. Oppenheimer,"Don't let that Sissy back in!" I enjoyed the film, but the length was a problem and the lack of focus on Dr. Oppenheimer's stellar character. It is an important movie due to its subject matter, but unfortunately does not sustain the interest that it should.
