Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is quite literally Nolan at the top of his career and it’ll be really hard seeing him beat this masterpiece I’ll soon see tomorrow if The Odyssey does but this film is genuinely breathtaking and incredible throughout every single moment.
Ludwigs score is absolutely outstanding every-time you hear it, it gets better and better and I love how it creates tension and I love the beats and tones and how it gets faster and faster creating that strong sense of urgency in a race against time, I also love how it shares to the audience Oppenheimers frame of mind it’s insane.
The story and filmmaking is Ofcourse phenomenal I love the split perspectives of the story Black and White scenes is Strauss understands and the colour scenes is Oppenheimers frame of mind and I love the chopping and changing throughout and I love the pity revenge and framing Oppenheimer under a closed hearing and just the outcome and then the senate hearing scenes are also phenomenal I think that’s mostly thanks to RDJ who’s absolutely brilliant throughout I love his short monologue on how Oppenheimer has not once said he regrets a thing it adds to only the short understanding Strauss has, then we also get Rami Malek who shines in his role for only a short period and is one of the best characters in it. Also everything outside they scenes are phenomenal such as recruiting for the manhattan project and the actual making of the bomb is brillant but i actually love after it’s made and how Oppenheimer is happy with his triumph but soon as he starts giving that speech he sees these frightening images and is instantly terrified realising he’s created a weapon of mass destruction and there’s no going back. Cillian Murphy really fits his role as J Robert Oppenheimer he proved it with such a real, genuine performance showing every emotion he possibly could to portray this character. Also the rest of the cast from Florence, to Blunt, to Safdie are quite literally incredible and it’s one of the most stacked casts ever.
This film utilises new IMAX cameras and Hoyte Van Hoytema and when they clash together you genuinely get some of the most beautiful images ever seen which is making me so much more excited to seeing The Odyssey.
I genuinely can’t thank Nolan enough for making this incredible masterpiece which will definitely define future films and filmmaking as a whole it’s absolutely incredible. Thank You Nolan.
Bring on the journey of Odysseus.