The movie isn't what I would call dramatic, but it does portray Oppenheimers life fairly accurately.
And while I don't believe I'm giving a spoiler as this is history saying that Oppenheimers troubles post war were with his associations in the past with people who were communist or extreme left leaning during the McCarthy era, the movie brings out the fact he was guilty more of bad judgment than political sympathies.
Even so I just changed it to "it contain spoilers"
Peggy Noonan wrote a great op-ed in the WSJ today on the movie saying that she wishes the movie had delved more into his reaction to the damage at Hiroshima.
I believe that a movie of the immediate damage was classified until the early 70s
I am giving my personal opinion here but based on what I have read, with the casualties at Okinawa, which was actually the first stage of the invasion plans to the island of Kyushu securing the airfield, that the bomb was necessary. Even with Nagasaki bombed it took the intervention of Hirohito to affect a surrender.
Well I will not further delve into this but stay with the movie and it is true as the movie portrayed that a group of scientist tried to petition President Truman not to use it
And it is true that before the test at Trinity there was actually some fear that the atomic reaction would burn the atmosphere completely around the world.
My one criticism of it was the time they spent after Trinity delving into all of the investigations of Oppenheimer. To me any way it was all minutia and the movie would've been better served Shortly after Trinity (that was the first atomic test in New Mexico), as ending the movie with a few paragraphs explaining what was happening. 10 or 15 minutes of this minutia for me and I left the theater. I left the theater before the end but still enjoyed the movie.
Which is a first for me.
I thought Matt Damon even portrayed general Leslie Groves well. He's a pretty good actor going from Carroll Shelby to Leslie Groves
Anyway with the average of 8.7 on IMDb I gave it a "7" so I know my opinion is not shared by the majority but I am sharing it nevertheless.
And while I don't believe I'm giving a spoiler as this is history saying that Oppenheimers troubles post war were with his associations in the past with people who were communist or extreme left leaning during the McCarthy era, the movie brings out the fact he was guilty more of bad judgment than political sympathies.
Even so I just changed it to "it contain spoilers"
Peggy Noonan wrote a great op-ed in the WSJ today on the movie saying that she wishes the movie had delved more into his reaction to the damage at Hiroshima.
I believe that a movie of the immediate damage was classified until the early 70s
I am giving my personal opinion here but based on what I have read, with the casualties at Okinawa, which was actually the first stage of the invasion plans to the island of Kyushu securing the airfield, that the bomb was necessary. Even with Nagasaki bombed it took the intervention of Hirohito to affect a surrender.
Well I will not further delve into this but stay with the movie and it is true as the movie portrayed that a group of scientist tried to petition President Truman not to use it
And it is true that before the test at Trinity there was actually some fear that the atomic reaction would burn the atmosphere completely around the world.
My one criticism of it was the time they spent after Trinity delving into all of the investigations of Oppenheimer. To me any way it was all minutia and the movie would've been better served Shortly after Trinity (that was the first atomic test in New Mexico), as ending the movie with a few paragraphs explaining what was happening. 10 or 15 minutes of this minutia for me and I left the theater. I left the theater before the end but still enjoyed the movie.
Which is a first for me.
I thought Matt Damon even portrayed general Leslie Groves well. He's a pretty good actor going from Carroll Shelby to Leslie Groves
Anyway with the average of 8.7 on IMDb I gave it a "7" so I know my opinion is not shared by the majority but I am sharing it nevertheless.