How to make a movie about the nuclear bomb with intense introspecting conversations exciting and thrilling?
Nolan has done just that. This paints a very painstakingly detailed picture of the happenings around the creation and controversial bomb. Cillian Murphy's acting is haunting, brilliant, and devastating. Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh acted very well. What was surprising was Robert Downey Jr.'s performance was excellent and used so well by Nolan. He shows his acting chops and acting abilities even outside of Iron Man and the MCU.
The screenplay consisting of dialogue can easily make the audience bored. But the writing is so tight with so many nuances and complexities with excellently well-rounded characters with their own motivations and flaws. This movie constantly makes us sit on the edge of our seats and creates tension so well. Now I understand why Nolan said it might be a horror movie after watching the movie. The Trinity test and the whole sequence of events might just be one of the greatest achievements by Nolan and by any filmmaker in Cinema. No music is used during that scene, showing Nolan's trust in that scene to work wonders on its own and stand well in its own might. That scene works as Marvel on the screen with rapt silence.
Other human and personal aspects of Oppenheimer's life are shown to be as complicated as it was in real life. It shows him to be a troubled individual that he is suffering the consequences and harrowing pain of his actions. Ludwig Goranssen's score works so well to elevate and provide the required music aptly to the scenes. His greatness and musical genius is visible from his use of silence very similar to his Indian counterpart Ilayaraja. The Trinity test scene required complete silence instead of pulsating and pounding music. Hoyte Von Hoytema's Cinematography is brilliant and the frames and lighting are fascinating and breathtaking and aid so well in creating Nolan's vision. The frames are gorgeous and again that bomb test scene comes back to my mind.
The non-linear screenplay works very well too to keep us engaged. Another good scene is him giving a success speech and getting flashes of the consequences of the bomb he just helped create. That scene is punctuated with white flashes of painful visuals in his mind and silence. It works wonderfully to accentuate his guilt and pain. The last scene shows his realisation and pain and just Cillian Murphy's brilliant stare of blue eyes into a hollow emptiness which is haunting and devastating to say the least which marks the end of the movie.
As the movie ended no one moved and everyone just stared at the black screen stunned by what they had just seen. In my opinion, stunned silence is what viewers would be left with after watching it and I would not be exaggerating when I say the viewers will be thinking of the movie, trying to process it and just thinking about the final shot of Cillian Murphy staring. Absolutely breathtaking and unusual Nolan film but succeeds very well.
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