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‘A spectacular achievement’: first reactions praise Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s $100m epic, out 21 July in the US, has premiered to acclaim with some calling it his finest film to date
Wed 12 Jul 2023 09.30 EDT
Christopher Nolan’s epic drama Oppenheimer has received a string of positive notices after a Paris premiere.Blonde v bombshell: get set for the Barbie-Oppenheimer smackdown
The film, with a budget of $100m, stars Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, seen as the “father of the atomic bomb”. The cast also includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh and Robert Downey Jr.
Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri has called the film “incredible”, tweeting that it’s a “relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way”.
Associated Press writer Lindsey Bahr tweetedthat the three-hour film is “a spectacular achievement, in its truthful, concise adaptation, inventive storytelling and nuanced performances”. She also called it “a serious, philosophical, adult drama that’s as tense and exciting as Dunkirk”.
The Los Angeles Times film editor, Joshua Rothkopf, has also called it “incredible” while critic Kenneth Turan described it as Nolan’s “most impressive film to date”. MTV’s Joshua Horowitz tweeted: “Impeccable immersive filmmaking of the highest order. Cillian Murphy gets the role he deserves. In love with Downey’s work. This one demands your attention.”
Oppenheimer is currently tracking to open to $40-50m in its US debut on 21 July but faces stiff competition from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which opens on the same day.
It marks Nolan’s first film for Universal Pictures after parting ways with Warner Bros. The new deal reportedly comes with a number of specific demands such as a theatrical window of at least 100 days before any form of digital release and a three-week period before the studio releases another film.
“It feels sometimes like a biopic, sometimes like a thriller, sometimes like a horror,” Murphy saidto the Guardian. “It’s going to knock people out.”
In an interview with Wired, Nolan said: “Some people leave the movie absolutely devastated. They can’t speak. I mean, there’s an element of fear that’s there in the history and there in the underpinnings. But the love of the characters, the love of the relationships, is as strong as I’ve ever done.”
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OPPENHEIMER and EINSTEIN
On Science and Culture by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Encounter (Magazine) October 1962 issue, was the best article that he ever wrote and it touched on a lot of critical issues including the one that Francis Schaeffer discusses in this blog post!
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Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, 1947: Flickr, James Vaughn
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Francis Schaeffer above
Whitehead and Oppenheimer said modern science could not have been born except in the milieu of Christianity. Why? In the area of biblical Christianity, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Francis Bacon — all these men, up to Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell — understood that there was a universe because God had made it. And they believed, as Whitehead has so beautifully said, that because God was a reasonable God one could discover the truth of the universe by reason. So modern science was born. The Greeks had almost all the facts that the early scientists had, but it never turned into a science like modern science. This came, as Whitehead said, out of the fact that these men really were sure that the truth of the universe could be pursued with reason because it had been made by a reasonable God.
I do not believe for a moment that if the men back at that point of history had had the philosophy, the epistemology of modern man, there would ever have been modern science. I also think science as we have known it is going to die. I think it is going to be reduced to two things: mere technology, and another form of sociological manipulation. I do not believe for a moment that science is going to be able to continue with its objectivity once the base that brought forth science has been totally destroyed. But one thing I am sure of, and that is that science never would have begun if men had had the uncertainty that modern man has in the area of epistemology.
He is There and He is Not Silent in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer. vol 1. A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture. Crossway: Wheaton, IL. 1985. p. 328
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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – August 6 and 9, 1945
From left to right: Robertson, Wigner, Weyl, Gödel, Rabi, Einstein, Ladenburg, Oppenheimer, and Clemence
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