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Oppenheimer (2023)
Too hard dedication to the book
First the positives: the casting was excellent. Cillian Murphy saves the film during its poorer parts. Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh are good choices for their roles, but are not portrayed anything near their potential.
And this leads to the negatives: The characters in the film are surprisingly unidimensional. There is no depth or any character complexity, asides from that of Oppenheimer himself.
I understand the need to adhere to the structure of the book, and the book and part of history is amazing. But there was more room to be creative and investigative with the plot, add layers where the book is open and objective.
As a tragic example: the unnecessary nudity of Pughs character where the emotional or intelligent connection would be more natural to focus on, from the obsessive genius that Oppenheimer was. And the constant hardness of Blunts character feels like the same type of stripping of depth.
Also, the anguish and regret of Oppenheimer as a scientist trying to achieve greatness should have deserved more time and focus. Read the book many years ago, it's an excellent recap of this piece of history, I was hoping for more from such a good director as Nolan is for this story.
It still feels like a first draft for me.
Cillian Murphy and the score was perfect though.
Tallulah (2016)
Amazing
I was stunned by how beautiful this movie was. I didn't really expect this much, and seeing a weak IMDb score made me want to review this film. All women should watch this film. It disregards all standard stereotypes we have about mothers, middle aged women and how we relate to each other. Some reviewers talk about it being predictable, Id say its the opposite. Aside from the general outline of events in the film, no valuable aspect is predictable. Although I cannot speak for the male audience, I am worried it plays too much on female emotions and values to be able to be a hit for both genders. But I might be wrong. It contains Oscar worthy performances and its screenplay is brilliant in itself. It reminded me a lot of the feeling I got stuck with after watching American Beauty.That feeling is still there though. Don't know about this one.