This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being discussed here wouldn’t exist.”It’s a paradox, but it works.” This one brief sentence gets at the heart of the new Christopher Nolan film “Oppenheimer,” serving as a potentially accidental kind of mission statement.
A movie about the life and times of J.
Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the Manhattan Project during the latter years of World War II and who essentially invented a new form of warfare via the atomic bomb, is not impossible but presents a series of challenges to any filmmaker.
Here is a man whose intellect was unparalleled, who rubbed shoulders with many of the most remarkable scientists to ever live, and whose importance to both American and world history is unquestioned.
But here is a man whose intellect led…
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