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95. Oppenheimer (w/ Bilge Ebiri)

Cows in the field

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The Framing of the Atomic Energy Commission

The film has two narratives proceeding in parallel. There are flashbacks from each of those points going back where basically the narrator of that part, Strauss or Oppenheimer is saying something to someone and then we're getting the like visual recreation of that. The thing is structurally this thing is so nuts and so elegant let me tell you I'm living in in a future timeline in which people have watched this movie multiple times.

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