Oppenheimer

[dookeyXXX]

I am currently regretting not having done the Mamma Mia / The Dark Knight double-feature…

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[PB]

So ..... how many movies can any one watch in a 24 hour period without losing it and punching out your grandma?

[dookeyXXX]

Stoner Seth Rogan muses that Oppenheimer might be ideal if viewed on edibles (graph 12)…


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[summit]

Outstanding movie... Nolan knocks it out of the park. Directing, editing, sound editing, score, casting, acting, writing...

I'm very familiar with the history of this, so there are historical inaccuracies, some annoying, more were dramatic license to good effect.

SPOILERS:

There was a lot of heart felt but naïve ideas from the scientists who grappled with the horror they created versus a world of realpolitik and a time when the Soviets really had the wool pulled over people's eyes. The movie tackled a lot of the issues astutely and briefly while skipping others. That's fine. It was 3 hours and there wasn't much fat to trim and replace.

The genie was never going back in the bottle. Nobody was going to have internationally administered nuclear stockpiles with Stalin's Soviet Union. There was no reasonable alternative to employing the bomb as was. It was the cruelest mercy ever wrought and purchased a peace preventing general war between the major power that continues to this day.

Oppenheimer was put through the wringer, but he was not a saint, made some dumb political and personal decisions, and had naive ideas. Teller was a bigger ass and mad scientist in addition to not playing well with others as illustrated. Strauss was not a nice guy but there was some creative license work done making him the true Machiavellian narcissistic borderline villain that we all felt good about getting what he dished out back in his face. Nolans choice of animation of the Trinity test was a bit odd artistically and underwhelming. I did not like Truman's portrayal. Einstein did not figure in much at all, but was imaginarily inserted as a father figure relatable to the general public, reasonable dramatic license I think. etc etc

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[subtle plague]

We are surprised that in the early days people were radiated because they didn't have proper safety procedures?

[summit]

Fallout wasn't well understood as a danger until crossroads baker in 1946 and even then not really broadly until castle bravo in 1954.