Christopher Nolan’s harrowing new film Oppenheimer has left viewers walking “devastated” and unable to speak.
Oppenheimer follows theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer – played by Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy – on his mission to create the atomic bomb to end World War II.
But Inception director Christopher Nolan warned film lovers they could be emotionally destroyed by his latest work as some have walked out of cinemas “devastated” by it.
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“Some people leave the movie absolutely devastated,” he told Wired. “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.”
He added: “It is an intense experience, because it’s an intense story. I showed it to a filmmaker recently who said it’s kind of a horror movie. I don’t disagree.”
The director revealed that Oppenheimer’s story is full of “impossible questions” and “no easy answers”, which is what makes the story so compelling.
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Nolan added: “It felt essential that there be questions at the end that you leave rattling in people’s brains, and prompting discussion.”
The film, which is of course based on real events, also stars Hollywood big-hitters Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon.
An Oppenheimer biographer wrote: “I am, at the moment, stunned and emotionally recovering from having seen it.
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I think it is going to be a stunning artistic achievement, and I have hopes it will actually stimulate a national, even global conversation about the issues that Oppenheimer was desperate to speak out about — about how to live in the atomic age, how to live with the bomb and about McCarthyism — what it means to be a patriot, and what is the role for a scientist in a society drenched with technology and science, to speak out about public issues.”
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