OPPENHEIMER: Prometheus And His Children
I distinctly remember leaving Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION in 2010, the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, with a sense of an ending that would stick with me for the rest of my life. It was the first time I ever went to the theatre and left mulling a film’s ending over and over, wondering what it all was really for. More than thirteen years later and into my late 20’s, I’ve never quite gotten over that feeling of leaving a piece of art transfixed with the questions it might pose and ultimately come out more enthused than something that acts like it has every answer and diminutively resolves it. Nolan’s three-hour biopic OPPENHEIMER based on the Pulitzer Prize winning biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin is a look into the psyche of a man who, by the end, is utterly convinced that he has led a chain reaction of the destruction of humanity. Because of the film’s very clear inspiration and adaptation of the 2005 novel, it be...