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Tuesday 14th November 2023
Is not about Oppenheimer science or bombs. Is about propaganda and burritos for all.
Shall we all watch this movie?
I want to say that in spite that my solid position about not taking certain fictional -Or invented- political expressions and ideas on movies seriously and turn them into a central point of analysis Oppenheimer is an exceptional case for a long road full of wild amount imaginary -Sometimes bizarre- situations I will write fully and without any qualms when dealing with elements that make this film more propaganda than film.
That said, if you consider that everything should be valid on movies stop reading because I don't think so when we sell ideas.
Let's start...
I decided from day one that "Oppi" deserved more than one visit to the theaters. Since I don't like to watch such a film without a cool glass of coke and a comfortable spot the obvious way was to wait until it was available on Blu-Ray or streaming whatever happens first.
We are not talking about Memento, Batman, Inception. Not at all. Is a movie about the person who created the first mass destruction weapon and at my taste an egocentric mediocre science man compared with contemporaneous on the same field.
I will let clear that "my opinion" extends only to my view of what kind of person ha was. I don't find a single arguable letter about "creator of the first mass destruction weapon and mass murder".
This movie is surrealistic. This is a version of Cristopher Nolan that people seem to like. If you ask me, Nolan's last movie was saved by Robert Pattinson, as the film itself is a predictable conceptual disaster that leaves a bittersweet taste in your mouth and the idea that Nolan wasted potential by entering his quantum world. That sad similarity with a twisted vision of his portrait - Or half-fictional story - of J. Robert Oppenheimer lost in his world of explosions, implosions, fusions and fissions is certainly disturbing.
This is not Oliver Stone material. Is not the kind of biographical movie that tries to be either loyal to the facts or take distance from them drawing the line between historical facts and imaginary/speculative/hypothetic. Not Oliver stones classic "hey. here's my hypothesis and there ya' go. with Kevin Costner". Not by chance. This feels like raw emotional material. An unsettling mix between a partial truth and an immense amount of blurred lines in the framework of political ideology - which is more abundant than physical ideology - permanently changing and confusing in every wrong aspect.
Nolan's starts the movie with a permanent yet non implicit message about physics between physics from mixed nationalities with a certain obsession with Jewish physics on the first place.
Now, don't get me wrong. But that interest lasts a few minutes and it's arguable how much it illustrates how much the did for the field -which is a lot-. Nolan's persistence creates an atmosphere that seems to leave an unsettling message pointing on the wrong direction here.
Not implicit. But certainly something that turns into an insidious "detail" and not necessary at all. Looking this makes me wonder why this movie is making associative patterns to put them into a blender. Well, he is not doing that.
Is enough to go further into Nolan's idea of this person. The director appears to use non contextualized situations as canvas to draw with his version of the story, or better said: His version on how you should judge this by yourself. Just to see that now we added communism and we are creating heroes and villains from the most unlikely characters and turning even a moderate left wing person into a soviet and make some kind of joke about it near the end. "are you the plain red commie, or an intellectual one" oh my.
At some point, the "urgency" to have something to say about Hitler -And the axis in general?- turns the plot into a nonsense Stalin talk that nobody wants but the movie needs to justify for lot of the no so fictional facts that it's better to "cover" with a bit of pop art and make up to avoid people from being aware of what Stalin as an ally means.
This movie doesn't seem to be on road ideologically. Just like Hitler, Stalin was nothing more than another mass murderer. His "purges" murdered a brutal number of defenseless innocents. although I cannot omit the fact that the animal - I don't think of another description or adjective - eliminated all types of religion and cult turning it into an illegal matter. An "inconvenience" for the regime. The people fear that allowed him to be him.
On the same philosophical line that Nolan uses along the whole movie even what Hitler is doing sees itself minimized and at some point Stalin comes handy to explain on a friendly way why you have almost all academics into communist thinking/party. That is not a good prospective. But I will leave that for the end.
Oppenheimer relation with Albert Einstein and the way they depict him is simply terrible. Even physics that openly declared themselves anti nazi or the ones that wasn't working on a bomb but nuclear energy as a goal.
Is hard to move this person from the dark corner where he belongs. The extremely forced scenes talking about the supposed Schindler's like behavior on Oppenheimer are flat and straight laughable.
It creates a useless ideological gap between left and right. I imagine the situation for me:
"You. You are using Linux!! Are you a commie??"
Figure I am. Not "a flat red commie" Or an "intellectual" I'm a person who believes in something that none of the nefarious characters depicted on this movie really had: Humanity. I believe that there's no honest and decent person who can bear to see that others suffer because the system need a few tweaks. Yet, I'm not a communist.
I'm a normal person who doesn't see politics like soccer teams and games. I believe that ignorance was always the avail for people like this to act this way without any penalty.
This confuse mess points a finger on you. I consider it a joke. Imagine David Lynch depicting Oppenheimer as a tortured soul who only want to end a war (??) amazingly human.
In short: Apparently, now it happens to be that one gets Nolan's message nearly as "all of us are commies. At a different level" What?
apart from the kind depiction and adaptation of a person with Nolan's scope this movies is a bare-bone raw defense to Oppenheimer while he act on a critic way with a capitalist system.
Creates a human being from the person who created a mass destruction weapon. At the same time, all the physics that he actually made were a plain calculation about the chain reaction and the possibility of being responsible for the end of days.
Also puts extra ink on:
"thanks to that bomb that killed almost 200.000 souls just on the drop day we can end the war"
I'm not from the United States nor is Cristopher Nolan as far as I know. Same for Emily Blunt, Cilian Murphy and 70% of the cast.
I guess that gives me the right to simple say that I will never consider a psychopath who did it to have a name as a great professor -Even over Eisenberg. Sad AF.-as the creator of something that have a value for mankind.
Maybe it does. A negative value. Can't be used unless you have several issues. The united States And the Soviets conducted tests even on their own soil and islands like Bikini on the pacific.
That bombs caused hundred of years in persistent damage. Shall we count that deaths too and sum them to Oppenheimer list of victims?
I will not under any circumstance consider that I need a second thought on that. And I even feel insulted. I think that the writer and director made some surrealistic nightmare to achieve what nobody can: Turn Oppenheimer into a respectable science men?
I don't care about the arguments that the movie offer and I still think that who decided to drop that bomb was insane. They didn't even know what it could cause apart from measuring material damage.
That small voice that the movie slides. "people will never forget this" No. But I will never consider that is the doing of a madman. That madman get paid. Another sensitive point.
This is the worse example of: Cheap pro USA propaganda tinted as a biographical movie. Be ready because this time the boredom fest will be far beyond Black Hawk down. We have more civilian casualties to justify?
Again. I think IMHO that this movie goes too far, is not for everyone, is not 100% biography and it was predictable to be so. Otherwise we have people that needs to accept that the rest of the planet didn't get into countless wars. That using a bomb to secure your ass is coward.
Only revives the amazing sensation that you feel watching an obese kid eating big macs on the other side of the planet. That awesome thing that people living in a world who decided to not judge Stalin and consider that a country who killed that amount of people should go home with no penalty at all.
An insulting attempt to -Again- create a genius. Is unsettling how it turns on the end.
Conclusion: If you are not naive enough to believe that a guy that was worse than nazi scientists was a tormented genius deep inside then avoid this propaganda filled snorefest. Will ruin your mood easily if you are not a complete ignorant. That's for sure.