Oppenheimer: “Audiences are absolutely devastated” … Christopher Nolan comments on initial reactions

If the atomic bomb destroys everything, Christopher Nolan’s film about its creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, obviously has the same effect on the audience!

The director told the magazine about it Wired that after Oppenheimer’s first trial performance, the audience left the theater devastated.

“Some people left the room absolutely devastated. They couldn’t speak. There’s an element of fear that’s in the story and the basics. But the love of the characters, the love of the relationships is stronger than anything I’ve ever done.”

Some people left the room absolutely devastated. They could not speak.

Christopher Nolan then adds:Oppenheimer’s story consists of impossible questions. Impossible ethical dilemmas, paradoxes. There are no easy answers in this story. There are only difficult questions, and that’s what makes the story so compelling.

I think we’ve been able to find a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the film, honestly, but there’s this overriding question that hangs over it. It was essential that there were questions that were going around in people’s minds and that were causing discussion.”

And that’s what cinema is supposed to do, to encourage reflection and discussion, and Oppenheimer’s theme is perfect for this exercise. The historical thriller follows physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy) and depicts his work with a team of scientists during the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

With a budget of 100 million dollars, Oppenheimer It is one of the film events of the summer of 2023 in the world. Thanks to its author Aura, who wrote the screenplay with Kai Bird and Martin J. According to Sherwin’s book.

Scheduled to hit our theaters on July 19, the movie runs at 3:09 and stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh. , Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Modine, Jack Quaid, David Dustmalachina, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman and Casey Affleck.