Starring Cillian Murphy, Opperheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, created controversy in some countries due to a sex scene involving a chair between the protagonist Oppenheimer and Jean Tatlock, played by actress Florence Pugh.
The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer as he was part of the Manhattan Project, which aimed to create the country’s first nuclear weapon. The film made headlines, even containing censorship in some countries of India and the Middle East.
Why is the chair scene so controversial in Oppenheimer?
In the scene, the character Jean Tatlock, a psychiatrist member of the Communist Party and lover of the physicist Oppenheimer, is naked in an armchair and talking to him, also naked. In some cinemas she is dressed in black, an outfit staged by CGI as a form of censorship.
The scene is a flashback of what happened during the interrogation at the Oppenheimer Atomic Energy Commission where his wife Kitty is present. Soon after, a scene is shown in which Tatlock is in the interrogation room, naked, on Oppenheimer’s lap, implying that this is a depiction of the betrayal through Kitty’s eyes. However, most important to the scene is the fact that Tatlock was a communist, leading one to believe that the physicist had some level of involvement with the Communist Party at the time.
But this scene was not the only one that was questioned in the play. In the first sex scene featured in the film, Tatlock and Oppenheimer have sex while he reads an excerpt from the Bagavadeguidá, a sacred text in Hinduism, considered extremely offensive to the Hindu people, bringing even more controversy to Nolan’s production.
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