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The Man Who Won the War in the Pacific

Every character actor and actor you've ever seen in any movie is in this movie at some point or the other. There's so much going on here. It's a biography of yeah, the key chapters of J Robert Robinheimer's life. The dropping of the atomic bomb very, very realistically changed that entire dynamic on an international stage. How did that man end up becoming a pariah, essentially, to the entire government, upper apparatus? How does that happen? I'll have Mark take it away because I'm struggling to convey why it's so good. But like trust me, that sequence where they do the atomic bomb test, like the centerpiece sequence of the movie, we can also

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