The best movie you’ll see this year—or, if I’m being honest, this decade—is about two men having a protracted argument about God.
If you merely watch the trailer, you may walk away with the erroneous impression that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus, is about the creation of the atomic bomb, or about the moral implications of forging a weapon that laid waste to a quarter-million souls, or even about the inner life of its chief inventor, the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. These presumptions are correct, of course, but also trivial: The film’s nuclear fission comes from the energy released when Oppenheimer splits from and clashes with his nemesis, Lewis Strauss, a man who saw pretty much everything about the world, but especially religion, in radically different terms.
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