Christopher Nolan is one of the finest filmmakers working today, and Oppenheimer is perhaps his greatest achievement to date. See this movie on the biggest screen you possibly can, preferably on IMAX. The visuals are stunning; the performances, compelling—particularly that of Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom Nolan has called “the most important man who ever lived.”
Nolan is renowned for his complex structures. In Dunkirk, the film was broken into three sections: land, a week; sea, a day; air, an hour. Those sections converge in a single moment, the film’s climax, a dramatic rescue. Oppenheimer is structured like a double helix, in two integrated parts: fusion, the bringing together of atoms, shot in black and white; and fission, their tearing apart, shot in color. Scientifically, both processes create vast amounts of potential energy.
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