Oppenheimer Movie by Christopher Nolan

Oppenheimer is the movie based on the story of the famed creator of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer. The story and direction of the movie is done by none other than the great Christopher Nolan with a star cast to envy any movie ever produced.

It is a movie shot in IMAX an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.

Star Cast

Boasting of who’s who in the movie, the film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist, and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.

Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.

Story

The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan.

The story is a feature documentary on the creation of the atomic bomb and the psychology and brilliance and hubris of one man with a committed drive to create a weapon which would eventually end a war. It might be the single greatest development that might have changed the nature of war for the forever future.

Speciality

In the day and age where Hollywood movies have moved to creating super-heroes with spectacular capabilities and VFX effects, Christopher Nolan is among the remaining few directors who still builds grandiose true-to-life sets and reflects cinematic set pieces by filming them instead of digitizing. Oppenheimer is thus a culmination of Nolan's cinematic genius combined with an incredible story that changed the world in more ways than one. It's incredibly intimate and divisive, with the onus of its justification being put on the audience instead of the narrator.

The movie itself is shot in IMAX and the IMAX 70mm reel itself is claimed to be 17Km long when laid out and is 272 Kgs a visual spectacle with a sound by Ludwig Göransson who previously has worked with Nolan in Tenet.

You add to all the above the brilliance of the star cast mentioned and mastery of Christopher Nolan you create a recipe for a perfect movie which for the people who have already seen the movie claiming they felt devastated after watching the movie. The very times that we live in with the war between Russia and Ukraine and the underpinnings of nuclear war it just arrives in perfect time to let people know about the horrors of weapons and the fearful under current.

The length of the movie is three hours and though very lengthy in recent times it is claimed to keep the viewer pulled in, which is the case with most Nolan movies.

Initially bookings and show timings of the movie indicate a blockbuster movie in the making and possibly the best movie of the year at the Oscars. However there might be some competition with Martin Scorsese  movie Killers of the Flower Moon and Ridley Scotts Napolean with Joaquin Phoenix.