Oppenheimer [4K Ultra HD] [2023] [Region Free]

"Oppenheimer" is a movie about structures and logistical spheres. Organization is compelling and restraining but is in orbit around us. Materials are made. Labor is collected to produce and administrators elect departments to oversee use for these trade elements. Similarly, the title of responsibility is given, panels obtain proper living procedures, courts make written codes viable for reason and tradition secures principals. Adulthood is pursued in private pragmatic oversights. "Oppenheimer" is elegance crafted in scenes with actors in archetypal recreations of iconic historical scientific and Senatorial backrooms.In December of 1938 we see in a Berkeley University classroom a newspaper reporting that Hahn and Strassman have split a uranium nucleus describing the processes of nuclear fission. J. Robert Oppenheimer is set planted to the ground while potentialities, that are physical processes, are yet bounding out of his adult world into a contemplation of life altering disorderliness. Christopher Nolan's direction is dramatic posterity on a huge scale. J. Robert Oppenheimer's knowledge of the quantum physical world opens chasms of the unknown. Simultaneous to this, Oppenheimer's portraiture procures lateral attachments. These include the destruction of a city by a single bomb, the ending of WWII and the diplomatic world in the nuclear age.Maturity is a moral choice, and Oppenheimer moderates the combustible excitements so that his elementary spirit is reposed and wise. There is the revelation of what a prophecy such an exercise is. Imagine, Oppenheimer sees little scenarios play out in his mind. Meteorites showering down on a metallic gas earth. This is an abnormality, but think how dislodging Oppenheimer's first meeting with President Harry Truman is-in the Oval Office. The protocols of caution and deliberation have sustained Oppenheimer, to hold fast. J. Robert Oppenheimer does not want to produce a hydrogen bomb (H bomb) as he thinks that now is the time to put world league nuclear legislation into effect, and not challenge the Russians into new science and arms races."Oppenheimer" won an Academy Award for editing, and each scene begins with consequential details and ends in meaning. Cilian Murphy, as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the quantum physics theorist, won the Academy Award for best actor. His posture as a serious minded student, of intense introversion and intercessory sociability, is like a floating sunset glimpsed in a chromatic wash of lake water, among cottage trellises and white beach benches. The new moods are overwhelming, the revelations are enjoyed in private and separate one from company. So too, the first detonation of an atom bomb, though was overseen by Oppenheimer as director of Los Alamos, is a piquant trespass of tremendous forces that produce real change dynamics. This is inferred from Oppenheimer's witnessing the dense miles high fireball of the first explosion in a scene of intense quietness. The components of creation, and the various groups directed for collecting materials, from precedence, here to, sanctify beams on the ground with lofts of horizon climbs.General Leslie Groves(Matt Damon) is proud of Robert Oppenheimer, and Matt Damon is radiant as a gruff, get it done treasure who manages to remain memorable in this film of intense absorbtion and spectacle. Robert Downey Jr. won the Academy Award for best supporting actor, and his portrayal is the epiphany of an American iconic figure remembered in black and white on Senate boards and during hearings who represent America's political blessings, and ironically the oppressiveness of sanctioned power in opposition to liberality."Oppenheimer" is a treasure trove of rich narrative fulfillment. Plot is delivered and moves along at the same time. There is constant logical motivations and identifiable emotions to the conflicts. Hoyte Van Hoyteme won an Academy Award for cinematography. Christopher Nolan won for Best Director.

Great Movie. All around 9.8/10. Does have a slow start but it's one of those movies you must watch twice to fully grasp everything going on. It's that good.

With close to 35k reviews up for Oppenheimer on Amazon, I am sure it's a terrific use of my time and a great benefit to Amazon's worldwide customer base that I add another.Director and writer and coproducer Christopher Nolan definitely wanted to make a Big Important Film here. This baby is 3 hours with a huge cast of many top stars. And it's a complex story. Nolan wants to give us a good taste of the broader military and political backdrop while showing us into Oppenheimer's inner mind and heart.Obviously the movie was well received, earning something like a billion at the box office and netting 7 Oscar awards in 2024, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), and Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.). I found it gripping and well done, certainly worth my time. One way of looking at this is as two stories, one about Oppenheimer leading the Manhattan Project through World War 2, together with an attempt to explore the massive stresses on him and his family and fellow scientists because of that work. Then the second story is associated with investigations in the 1950s of whether Oppenheimer's security clearance should be revoked because of his one-time former Communist leanings and his own reservations about the development of the hydrogen bomb (massively more dangerous than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan). This latter thread should be familiar to us in the age of cancellation. A thought attributed to a supporting character in the film provides a central thesis for the film--a reflection on how Oppenheimer became the most important man in the world for a time, then was torn down, and then eventually was redeemed (though the movie does not go into the last).In historical films there has to be some device for feeding us all the background facts we need. Nolan uses two judicial proceedings, if you will, for this purpose. One is a security clearance hearing for Oppenheimer being done under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission (I think) in the 1950s. The other is a Cabinet-level confirmation hearing for the self-important government official played by Robert Downey Jr. The hearing requires that he revisit his attitudes and actions toward Oppenheimer in earlier years. If I am not mistaken, all the scenes with Downey are done in black and white. I think it's fair to say looking at Oppenheimer through the lens of these legalistic proceedings adds a lot of complexity to the film and I'm not sure the payoff is worth it. I mean, the movie must have us in hearings for an hour minimum.Murphy is brilliant, and it's hard to imagine anyone else having done better at portraying the father of the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had to be politician as much as scientist. Emily Blunt is excellent in essentially representing the brutal stresses Oppenheimer and those in his inner circle dealt with. I think those two and Downey are the three essential actors for the film, though I could also have imagined the film without the Downey role at all. Personally I was not convinced by Matt Damon's portrayal of an American general who supervised the bomb project--he just doesn't strike me as genuinely military. Maybe I am still having bad memories of him in Monuments Men, though he's one of my favorite actors in general. Did we need Florence Pugh as a troubled love interest, Rami Malek as one of numerous scientists, Kenneth Branagh as some other scientist, and all kinds of other big names and recognizable faces? I doubt it. I might have also appreciated seeing anyone smile a happy smile one time in the film. None of them smiled for 15 years? Anyway, I am dinging this worthy and solid film one star for feeling overly decadent and smacking of self-importance with the huge cast, the film length, and the higher level of complexity than needed.In my reading the movie is not asking so much whether the US should have developed the bomb or used it or not in Japan. It's rather a fairly heroic look at the types of genius it took one man to lead the bomb-building project and what he was willing or required to suffer as a result. Unfortunately I think we still come away wishing we actually knew more about what Oppenheimer was really like or how the bomb actually worked.

Oppenheimer. We all know the name, now learn the story behind the man. Entertaining, educational and very interesting.