Oppenheimer
I finally got around to seeing this, and the biggest surprise was it didn't feel too long. The sound and cinematography were spectacular in bringing concepts to life, but also showing the horror of the bomb without showing it. One definitely worth seeing in the cinema unless you have a huge tv screen and great surround sound. The subject matter, framed in a series of jumps around in time, looks at Oppenheimer's early years and involvement in the Manhattan Project through the frame of the McCarthy era and a senator with a hidden agenda (Robert Downey Jnr). The machinations were intricate and Machiavellian, and it is to the film's credit that it kept such clarity throughout, constantly circling us back to the moral as well as political arguments for and against the bomb and what humans will do with it. Murphy is his subtle best in this, becoming more haunted as time goes on and he becomes clearer in understanding what the politicians are really up to. H...