Oppenheimer

“Light is both a particle and a wave.” It’s possible that I’m exaggerating Nolan’s use for this sentence deliberately, but in my opinion, I’d like to think that by making Oppenheimer describe that paradox as the essential meaning of quantum physics, Nolan was making a parallel between Oppenheimer’s work and himself. A prominent theme of the film is Oppenheimer’s motives and question of his character. He is made to play the part of both a physicist and a politician. The “savior” of his time and destroyer of whats to come. Is it too far fetched to think he could’ve been both? Nolan’s overall cinematography was hard-hitting and influential over the audience’s emotions. This movie will make you wish we as humans never had the capability to evolve past the intelligence of a caveman. After all, that’s what started the end of an era without the weapons of mass destruction, right? One man had this idea and once it exposed itself to the world it became a race of who’s hands it landed in first. “Until someone builds a bigger bomb” resonates in the back of my mind like a prophecy. In short, the threat of nuclear war is terrifying, but the idea that we as people will grow to learn and have power over things our minds aren’t able to justify the moral reasoning behind? That’s enough to keep me up at night.