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I liked it - it was a Nolan movie (and if you don’t know what that is by this point, I guess now you’ll know).

Better than Interstellar, I think; that was an interesting idea that ended in a very clumsy way.

People forget, I suppose, how quickly the nation turned its back on Oppenheimer and was willing to burn him at the same stake that we burned any others accused of communism during the second red scare. Oppenheimer’s security clearance inquest was as important to the life of Oppenheimer as his time at Los Alamos. When his clearnace was revoked, his career was over and his identity was shattered.

Most biopics wrap at a second life defining moment; this one couldn’t end with the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the part where America’s adulation turned to castigation was important.

I’d say it was pretty good for a biopic - I usually really dislike those because a person’s life is mostly long boring parts.

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