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The ‘Oppenheimer’ Deep Dive

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The Apocalypse Now Problem

"I don't know though that I would want to watch an hour of Oppenheimer walking around thinking about Nagasaki," he said. "The movie peaks emotionally and physically and viscerally, yeah, two hours in and then he has another hour." He added: "It's like we're discounting the entire other part of the final third of the movie,. which is the Kagueru court interrogation [about his clearance being revoked]. And I feel like that works incredibly well".

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