unfiltered thoughts on Oppenheimer (this late? yes)
**obviously, spoilers. also, completely not in chronological order**
the cut-ins of stars and atoms until shit gets more serious and then it’s bombs until eventually it’s the devastation of seared flesh
the pacing was great - like why am i feeling anxious and completely engaged for a full 3 hours?
also the deeply uneasy feeling i had through the whole film was so scary. like all that was REAL though
takeaway - we trust the government and science to be neutral but it’s ALWAYS political. the irony of an ideologically communist, self-described leftist creating something that creates so much undiscerning destruction and death
The sinking feeling of knowing they knew there was a chance this could destroy the entire world and doing it anyway
he’s tormented? good. the fact that creating something like that CAN'T be an entirely theoretical or neutral endeavor
why does no one else feel life-long gut-wrenching life ruining guilt??
the huberis of man. believing they have the right to destroy in that way. that they have the power to decide the benefits outweigh the cost. that they can play god that way. that they have the ownership over the planet to decide that protecting their place on it is worth more than destroying another.
the terror i feel deep in my chest. the near hysteria i feel. on the verge of hyperventilating because i have no idea what destroyer of worlds exists in 2024 and it’s so clear no one is going to make morality and ethics the final word. they won’t protect us or choose not to destroy us
The fact oppenheimer has to keep reminding them that they also dropped a bomb on nagasaki
old makeup was actually really good
i can’t believe they actually thought dropping the biggest bomb in history (TWICE!!) would end all war. that people would see that demonstration of power and disregard for human life and decide we could never have war again. also the hypocrisy that the rest of the world would look at that and stand down forever but the US had the right to drop it in the first place
unserious point that needs to be made: every time tony goldwyn spoke i was kicking my feet but that’s my problem
robert downey jr really was acting
another unserious point: sorry but oppy is an aritzia girlie with those high waisted pants
one more: oppenheimer was a horse girl
actually, more horses in this movie than anticipated
so much of war is men having the audacity to play god with lives they don’t feel compelled to care about or deem as worthy as their own (or those similar to their own)
and they are so shameless about it in closed rooms
we will never know the way politicians play with world destruction behind closed doors in the room where it happens
we will never know what potentially earth shattering atrocities are being discussed to glibly by the leaders who have the power to flatten countries
"destroyer of worlds" is actually crazy
Times I Cried:
when they did the math and realized they could possibly set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere that never ends and consumes the whole world and i knew they were going to do it anyway (this thought would continue to consume me for the entire movie)
when they were in DC deciding the target of the bomb and talking about it so idiotically like this wasn’t going to destroy so many lives
in the same scene when oppenheimer was taking about the psychological impact of a bomb like that. just the knowing that something like that could happen — the terror of the vision of it
the celebration at the test when it worked and everyone was thrilled without any thought to what the purpose was at that moment.
“the japanese aren’t going to like it”
the fact they “needed” to kill hundreds of thousands of people to “bring our boys home”
when truman is on the radio saying the bombs were detonated in hiroshima and nagasaki
