Oppenheimer, a Spectacle
Simplistic sensationalism fails to honor complex man and profound scripture
I entered the theater eager to see Christopher Nolan's biopic illuminate J. Robert Oppenheimer in all his complexity. I left profoundly disappointed. This film reduces a man of vast intellect and inner contradiction to a simplistic caricature that justifies gratuitous excess. Nolan depicts Oppenheimer as merely a troubled genius focused on building the …
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