Amey Oak

This might be Christopher Nolan’s most personal movie yet and it’s absolutely brilliant. It's a visually immersive, stunning & riveting cinematic experience. It chronicles the life of Robert Oppenheimer who is regarded as the father of the atomic bomb. The film occurs in 3 timelines- One showing a closed security hearing initiated against Oppenheimer to remove his security clearance One showing Oppenheimer’s days as a student in Cambridge, Germany & then becoming a professor in Berkeley, Caltech & finally becoming the head of the Manhattan project which made the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki to end the 2nd world war. The 3rd timeline is about Strauss’s hearing to become the Secretary of Commerce but the Oppenheimer hearing issue backfires on him & his nomination is not accepted. The performances are fantastic, especially by Cilian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. & Matt Damon. The movie is much more than just the Trinity tests & the Japan bombings but about the politics of the World War, Cold War and the lethal use of science in geopolitics. We see all the famous nuclear physics scientists of the era like Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Heisenberg, Lawrence, Teller, Feynman in fascinating, interesting cameos. The only flaw in the film I would say is that the first half is a bit slow but other than that, it’s absolutely perfect. The movies last lines spoken by Einstein to Oppenheimer are so true & fascinating-“Eventually they will celebrate you, but it won’t be for you but for them” It’s one of Nolan’s best films and will be regarded as one of the most important films ever made.