Oppenheimer

This film maintained the perfect balance of action and human vulnerability, I think Nolan truly found the perfect balance in this film which others say he lost during the science and emotion heavy interstellar. Each scene could be analysed for hours on how it explains power dynamics, their true morals and what leads these physicists down this road of extreme choices which bear unmeasurable guilt. The patchwork of Oppenheimer’s past to his present also works so perfectly as just like him we get whisked away and consumed by his former decisions piecing everything together in this tangled web of international importance. I also love the use of black and white showcasing the militant, decisive boundaries of power in the US, the lack of emotion and the simplicity of rejection to them. But most of all I love the true criticism of the American military culture, that they will use you just to harm others, force you to bear the guilt and then dispose of you as a ‘traitor’ or disloyal as if loyalty is blindly following orders of those in power. Loved this one.