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What the Oppenheimer movie didn't tell you


Oppenheimer's omission - Outside/In

The film is set in Los Alamos, where the first atomic bomb was tested. But few people know the history of Carrizozo, a rural farming area downwind of the test.

I Could Not Believe How Incompetent of a Movie Oppenheimer Was

And, in a sense, these movies are critic-proof. Because if you didn't like it, you must not have “gotten it.” And, true enough, I could not pass ...

On Oppenheimer - Dispatches Magazine

In terms of intellectual inspiration there is a 25-second montage within the film's first ten minutes during which we see Oppenheimer reading ...

Oppenheimer (2023) - Quotes - IMDb

Senate Aide: You did, but you know, sir, since nobody... really knows what they said to each other that day, is it possible they didn't talk about you at all?

Oppenheimer - The Afterword

He borrows liberally from the cinematic language of things like 12 Angry Men, but you don't really know who the men are or why they're angry.

Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb: On Christopher Nolan's ...

The film's implication of distance between Oppenheimer and the government officials involved in dropping the atomic bomb is inaccurate; they all ...

Thought-provoked by 'Oppenheimer' - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Nolan's film didn't make clear that, however important Los Alamos was in designing the first atomic bomb, the laboratory was actually a very ...

What Actually Happened in Oppenheimer

Some Manhattan Project nerds will be disappointed that there wasn't much emphasis on Los Alamos or the actual creation of the bomb, but this is ...

Why Christopher Nolan Didn't Show Hiroshima or Nagasaki in ...

Christopher Nolan Explains Why You Don't See the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 'Oppenheimer'. Nolan's movie warns against the ...

Barbie Answers Oppenheimer - by Anne Helen Petersen

That description might make it sound like I didn't like the film — I did, and I especially liked Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer. But the film, ...

The true story behind Oppenheimer's atomic test - Vox

I would love to tell you that concerns that the first atomic bomb would destroy the world were made up to add some tension to the film. But ...

Blood on Our Hands - Contingent Magazine

He asked Oppenheimer when the Soviet Union would develop its own atomic bomb, and when the scientist gave a cautious answer — he did not know — ...

'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan says the film is his darkest

... films didn't. "If movies are a sort of collective dream ... How can you help us jump into Oppenheimer's head? The story is told ...

Oppenheimer told Truman 'I have blood on my hands' after atomic ...

The interest surrounding Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, has hit a fever pitch in the run-up to the movie. Some historians say the war between ...

'Oppenheimer' doesn't show Hiroshima or Nagasaki — by choice

The key word in Christopher Nolan's “Oppenheimer” is “compartmentalization.” It's a security strategy, introduced and repeatedly enforced by ...

Oppenheimer's Successor Weighs In on the New Film

In one scene Oppenheimer is wearing a military uniform and tells another scientist that they're all required to enlist in the U.S. Army. His ...

Review and Summary: Oppenheimer (2023) - Ashley Hajimirsadeghi

Oppenheimer begins to have guilt for what he made in this film after seeing the impacts of the bomb on the Japanese, and he becomes a pacifist of sorts.

Review: 'Oppenheimer,' A Weighty Series of Lectures

The endless questioning composes the majority of the third act of the movie, which is also when Oppenheimer himself, in the years after the ...

Oppenheimer Movie Review: Security Clearances on the Big Screen

I would still think so. If you're talking about things that happened in the film, do you not want to learn all about it before you watch it or ...

Einstein and Oppenheimer's Real Relationship Was Cordial and ...

Though Einstein didn't help build the nuclear bomb and has just a few scenes in Oppenheimer, they pack a punch—and reflect the two physicists' ...