This film Oppenheimer really focuses on the mentality and his intellectual ability as a man who experiments with developing the most powerful and destructive force known to man, the Atomic Bomb.
There is the usual like most public figures and rightful so the scrutiny of his actions and who he has associated with in his past including members of the Nazi Party in Germany.
A not too well-known fact is that J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) wanted to take over the United States of America for himself and his cohorts by threatening to use his grossly destructive Atomic Bomb against the President in the White House and American politicians in both Congress and the Senate at Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
Can you imagine if that happened, the United States of America would be in the hands of literally madmen.
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Thankfully this situation was averted and to end the war in the Far East against Imperial Japan two nuclear bombs were eventually dropped on two Japanese cities: Hiroshima on the 6 August the nickname “Little Bomb” and the other was Nagasaki on the 9 August the nickname for the second bomb “Fat Man” in 1945.
As a result, the leadership of Japan and the Emperor conceded defeat and surrendered unconditionally and then the Cold War started soon after the end of the World War both in Europe and in the Far East.
Interestingly, the fear that the Soviets under dictator Stalin would be open to an allied invasion led to British double agents most famously known as the Cambridge Spy Ring in England and they passed on nuclear technology, which led to the nuclear arms race for the next forty-years.
Enough of relevant historical facts concerning geopolitics that shaped the world since the 1950s, though this film about Oppenheimer has to greater degree has shaped our world, and now nine countries have enough nuclear weapons to create a "nuclear winter” which would mean that our ecosystem would be destroyed and electronic equipment and power grids would be knocked out by the electromagnetic energy fallout.
Oppenheimer seems according to the film and historical evidence and facts that he seemed troubled at what he and his fellow nuclear scientists had created.
We understand in today's world what the full ramification of what nuclear weapons can unleash because of all of the tests done in the late-forties and the last one conducted by the United States, France, the UK, China, India and Pakistan had finished by the late 1990s, though the last one by a country was only ago few years ago in 2017 by North Korea.
One could conclude that Oppenheimer had a realisation that if the nuclear genie got out then potentially every country would have nuclear weapons and that would cease Mankind as a race on this side of the galaxy.
But once it's been discovered and invented into a deliverable weapon that changes everything - forever!
The film then focuses on the brief and uninspiring meeting between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein (Tom Conti) who were actually friends and both of them lived and worked in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during the late 1940s, and by accounts they were deeply interested in the others scientific endeavours, however they did have their disagreements especially with Oppenheimer's involvement in the Manhattan Project, which researched and delivered the United States of America the nuclear bomb.
The other aspect that the film later depicted was the witch hunt of communists and anti-Americanism that befell the United States during the 1950s, and Oppenheimer got caught up with what eventually became known as McCarthyism named after Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the charge of curtailing the Soviet and Communist threat to the freedom of democracy and capitalism not just in the United States but across the Allied Northern Hemisphere and democratic nations elsewhere in the world.
Albert Einstein had a certain amount of sympathy for Oppenheimer because he faced a similar purge and persecution of Jews and others who didn't fit into what the Nazis' thought were good upstanding citizens during the 1920s and 1930s in their rise to power in his native Germany.
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Though one should not be mistaken that life under Stalin's Communist Soviet Empire was hard, rough and fear ran across that society of finding oneself out of favour and then marched to the Gulags in the harsh Siberian wilderness.
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Another piece of controversy was his studying at the University of Göttingen in Germany under prominent German professor Max Born (later to become the grandfather of the late Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton-John) during the 1930s when the Nazis' rose to power and for obvious reasons amongst American politicians the idea that this could have influenced Oppenheimer to support such extreme ideology was something that was investigated but no evidence came to light to indicate that the Nazis' or Nazism ideology influenced him in any fashion or way.
If you want to watch a film about a well-known scientist, then Oppenheimer is worth a watch but don't expect much or get overly excited.
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