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In response to
"I feel like we're talking across each other. -- (edited)"
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Reagen
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Sorry. (spoils)
Posted by
Inigo (aka Inigo)
Jul 25 '23, 08:45
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Nolan has said that part of the reason he didn't show what happens in Japan (Specifically the explosion) is because the film and script are from Oppy's point of view. So, switching to the bomb going off in Japan and the aftermath would have been jarring for the audience.
I was arguing more against Nolan there than you.
Here's the crux of my argument against the film. I don't feel that Oppenheimer is the most biased biography I've seen on film. Not even close. There's way more biased points of view out there.
But this is a subject matter (specifically dropping the bomb) that needs a deft, reverential and empathetic filmmaker. Instead of doing that, he made the film have no visual reference to what happened. No voice to the deaths. The film was as outwardly cold to the events as Oppenheimer was.
Contrast that with the film's passion for showing Strauss as awful and Oppenheimer as a flawed but loyal American, and it just feels off.
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