Oppenheimer with Marie Bardi
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Nolan's Relationship to Oppenheimer
Nolan is using Oppenheimer as like a surrogate character. This is a movie about him trying to crack him. I think it's the whole reason that the narrative is so fractured because his final conclusion is this guy was kind of unknowable. The image I keep on going back to is him and university in the first 20 minutes of the movie when he's lying awake in bed at night. He's like drenched in sweat and floppy hair and whatever. And he's like seeing these like physics spirals over his head. It feels like the only person in this movie who actually knows him is Kitty to some degree. She has him read better than he knows himself.
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