Robert downy11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Nolan clearly thought so, as a lot of the film’s momentum is borne from the pair’s disagreements. One beat that plays particularly well on the big screen is Oppenheimer’s relationship to ambitious career politician Strauss. Robert Oppenheimer (phew! They sure know how to write a book title!), which explores Oppenheimer’s studies, political interests, personal relationships, and legacy. Well, wider: the film is adapted from the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book entitled American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Though the rough beats of this story are well-known for anyone who has ever taken a GCSE History lesson, Nolan brings some of the political intrigue to a wider audience. The biopic-cum-thriller-cum-science lesson, which is out today, charts the uh, explosive success of the American scientist, who studied at multiple esteemed institutions – including England’s very own Cambridge University, where he tried to murder his teacher with a poisoned apple – before settling at Los Alamos Laboratory in the Californian desert to begin the work for which he is most (in)famous: The Manhattan Project. the opportunity do his best work in years. At the end of Christopher Nolan’s film, it’s a rare moment of levity: a welcome release after many sequences of frantic laboratory research and boardroom debates. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy), but Robert Downey Jr.’s character, Charles Strauss, who manages to paint himself, with an exquisite flair for self-sabotage, into a corner. ![]() It does not belong to man of the three hours J. Oppenheimer is light on laughs, but in its final moments, there’s something that comes close to one (at least, in my screening at Waterloo’s IMAX, a few people chortled: it’s a long film, perhaps they were tired). ![]()
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