The secret to Oppenheimer’s success? It makes American liberals feel better
Christopher Nolan’s biopic is well-made, if overly long. But it stinks of typically smug self-regarding Hollywood complacency
Oppenheimer won seven Oscars, including best director for Christopher Nolan, ending his 22-year wait for an Academy Award (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Film critics in the winter of 1939-40 agreed that Gone With The Wind− which then hardly any Briton had actually seen, unless having acted in it − was possibly the greatest film ever made.
Other contenders have been offered in the intervening decades, and the latest is Oppenheimer, the Christopher Nolan film that has already busted more blocks than most, and was long predicted to clean up at this year’s Academy Awards − and has duly done so, winning seven Oscars. It is, as many will know, the story of J Robert Oppenheimer, who developed the atom bomb and who, unsurprisingly (whatever one’s views on the nuclear deterrent) had some moral qualms about it thereafter.
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