Once the “Oppenheimer” hype dies down, you’ll likely hear more of that nagging criticism of the movie being about men talking in offices and classrooms.
There’s no doubt large chunks of the film’s three-hour runtime focus on Cillian Murphy’s J.
Robert Oppenheimer conversing with political leaders and his colleagues as they work their way towards creating the atom bomb.
But by his own admission, Christopher Nolan’s approach to filmmaking almost necessitates this kind of verbosity.
As the filmmaker previously told BAFTA:”I chose to take the path of incorporating that desire for a layered approach into the narrative itself, into the story.
And so I’ve made films that have some ambiguity to them, or some layering to them narratively, so that if you see them a second time you’re going to watch them a slightly different way.
And that was my approach.
There are other filmmakers who approached…
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