Christopher Nolan continues to make films in which the characters evoke no empathy. The form is elaborate, with hysterical editing that chops up scenes from different periods in the life of Cillian Murphy (who plays the character whose surname gives the film its title) in staccato mode: the film is practically a permanent sequence montage.
We get the impression that it was designed to be unviewable on an iPhone. Which in itself is commendable. And we also have the feeling that this 3-hours film is just the cinema version of a TV series of, say, ten one-hour episodes. This format would be more appropriate to tell such a story.
The film covers a small part of American history, where Communists, Nazis, Americans and Europeans live side by side. The film seems to want to denounce many things, but fails to be credible on any of them: the creation of the atomic bomb, its use for attack, its use for deterrence (the passages where the characters discuss these aspects are the most interesting), the persecution of communists, the hysteria of McCarthyism, the corruption of politicians.
The film indicates that it was a project and a collective of scientists who created the bomb, and not Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb. Which is commendable.
The character of his wife, played by Emily Blunt, is non-existent and contributes nothing.
We get the impression that it was designed to be unviewable on an iPhone. Which in itself is commendable. And we also have the feeling that this 3-hours film is just the cinema version of a TV series of, say, ten one-hour episodes. This format would be more appropriate to tell such a story.
The film covers a small part of American history, where Communists, Nazis, Americans and Europeans live side by side. The film seems to want to denounce many things, but fails to be credible on any of them: the creation of the atomic bomb, its use for attack, its use for deterrence (the passages where the characters discuss these aspects are the most interesting), the persecution of communists, the hysteria of McCarthyism, the corruption of politicians.
The film indicates that it was a project and a collective of scientists who created the bomb, and not Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb. Which is commendable.
The character of his wife, played by Emily Blunt, is non-existent and contributes nothing.