Oppenheimer

I still can't believe how great this is, surprisingly in a year where substantive films are actually back in theaters. Even this film has its flaws for sure; Chris Nolan isn't perfect. But it is so delicately crafted and I would be wasting time listing the technical things I didn't like about it. Watching this film is like reading the book (although now I really want to read the book). It's like peering into the past itself with the amount of narrative meaning packed into these three hours. J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the most important people in human history, because he was a man who thought he was doing the right thing for humanity, but slowly became devastated at the consequences his own work brought upon the world. If this sounds familiar in an allegorical sense, it's because Oppenheimer is the real life Paul Atreides, begging the world to heed his call of the ensuing jihad that will destroy the world. "Mistakes made by a leader (or made in a leader's name) are amplified by the numbers who follow without question." - Frank Herbert