The film ‘Oppenheimer’ is a compact and truly complicated movie that is arranged at a particular time in history and describes how life survived at that time. It is playing out in the entrapment of the varied design. It ably intertwines together the courtroom drama, the romantic trysts, the laboratory insights and the lecture hall personality cults.
Murphy’s physicality as a whole is one of the most concentrated weapons at the film’s disposal. He seems impossibly unpretentious, a speculative idea of a man in contrast to the robust confidences of the military figures he works alongside (Matt Damon’s Lt Gen Leslie Groves, for example, is confident and solid, a clenched fist looking for something to punch).
During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer o to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer is an atomic-age Frankenstein, a man captivated by the boundless possibilities of science, realising too late that his creation has a limitless capacity for destruction.
Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years designing and developing the atomic bomb. Their toil comes to actuality on July 16, 1945, as they watch the world’s first nuclear eruption, permanently transforming the course of human history.
However, perhaps more than all of this, Oppenheimer also stands as the ultimate monster movie. Ultimately, however, the monster in this story is not Oppenheimer’s invention but the craving for obliteration that turned loose on mankind. “One scene in the Christopher Nolan epic has not gone down well with some Indian movie-goers”, writes NDTV.
It’s a realisation that plays out, inevitably, in Oppenheimer’s hollow, haunted face as the film unfolds. Murphy’s far-seeing ice-chip eyes have never been put to better use. Fast forward to the present-day comparison, and the film is as favoured as ever particularly during the ongoing days with the internet’s popular style stars at the forefront of the spectacle.