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The plot of the movie will unfold during World War II. It will focus on Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. The script is based on the book "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" written by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin.

Oppenheimer 4K Review
Two major hits of this summer - the romantic comedy "Barbie" and biographical opus "Oppenheimer" - surprisingly organically deceive the audience's expectations, in fact turning out to be completely different from what they could be at first glance. And if the first turned out to be an exemplary kaming-off-age, the second turned into a monotonous but palpably disturbing movie about the birth of a death star, which is destined to take with it tens of thousands of innocent lives. The figure of Robert Oppenheimer - an outstanding physicist, thinker, sociophobe and endlessly dedicated man - could not help but inspire Christopher Nolan, a director who, in an era of high technology, stubbornly continues to follow the precepts of filmmakers of the past, still shoots on film and rejects CGI in every possible way. As always, there is no room for another genius in Nolan's cinematic universe, so he is adapting the autobiographical book "The Triumph and Tragedy of American Prometheus," which was the basis for the screenplay of "Oppenheimer" himself.

The first half of the movie starts with a non-linear biography of Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy): here he is a diligent student at the prestigious University of Gothenburg, a physics teacher at Berkeley, the head of the Manhattan Project, an elusive lover, an unfaithful husband, an indifferent father, a national hero, a traitor to his homeland, and in the end a man finally disappointed in his life's work. Another, more interesting part of the timing is devoted to the creation of the atomic bomb, the fierce lapping of talented nuclear physicists and disputes faceless gray suits (star cameos of the good brotherhood of Hollywood) in a large square office.

The controversial figure of Oppenheimer, who becomes more or less unipolar in Nolan's visual text, isn't really given much time. The action of "Oppenheimer" is constantly dashing from the past to the future and back again to the past, much of the great physicist's life is shown in fragments - in the form of colorful, slightly backlit memories against a backdrop of textured autumn landscapes and spacious gray laboratories. As much as Nolan tried to avoid quoting "Wikipedia", he did not do without the conventionality of the biopic genre - the director selectively emphasizes certain parts of the main character's confusing background and devalues others. The genius saves again on female characters: the drinking and willless Kitty Oppenheimer (Emily Blunt) has only 15 minutes of screen time, and the permanently naked Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) even less. At the same time, Oppenheimer's self-perception as a man not only reflexively thinking, but also excessively elevated above the perishability of earthly life is conveyed in the frame unmistakably accurately. Thanks in large part to the deep, passionate transformation of Cillian Murphy, an actor seemingly born to play psychopathic personalities.

There is no doubt that Robert Oppenheimer was a mentally unstable person, despite Nolan's great efforts to morally justify the protagonist. At the same time, as a "villain" to his named "genius" Oppenheimer, the director contrasts American businessman Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr. in one of his best roles), whose vision of what is happening is revealed in black-and-white shots. In fact, Nolan fails to deliver a "The Prestige" level of confrontation, where also two undeniably ambitious men revealed their dark sides. In "The Prestige" characters Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman elementary was where to turn around, "Oppenheimer" in some places resembles a large Hollywood communal, time in the frame is ranked by the degree of fame of the actor (Nat Wolfe and Jack Quaid, for example, got only a background crowd; Matthew Modine and Gary Oldman - a couple of brief but powerful monologues; Dane DeHaan and Rami Malek - a noticeable amount of time as absolutely weightless characters).

Uncompromisingly much timing in the movie only at the atomic bomb (literally all conversations are conducted around it) and music by composer Ludwig Joransson ("The Case", "The Mandalorean"), which creates a sense of growing suspense. Expectedly, the main blockbuster of the summer does not have a single action scene, unless you count the frighteningly silent moment of the first nuclear test of "The Thing", which will inevitably be followed by the dropping of "Baby" and "Fat Man" on the Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This part of the story Nolan deliberately leaves out, refusing to turn the major tragedy of World War II into a flashy cinematic attraction.

In the context of the Internet phenomenon "Barbiegamer", Christopher Nolan's picture looks like a dystopian version of Kenworld, where a group of paranoid men try to suppress, expose, morally and physically destroy each other. Under a radical patriarchy, reason entails only self-destruction, and the world becomes a disturbingly unsettling vortex. No matter how you slice it, "Oppenheimer" is the perfect antipode to "Barbieland," created in a distinct lack of love, trust, and rose-colored glasses. Of course, it's still possible to watch Nolan's opus without these three components, but overall it's not very interesting.