![]() As shown in Oppenheimer, the younger physicist helped to prove they do. The older physicist was skeptical of quantum theory, which Oppenheimer would advance, and didn’t believe black holes could possibly exist. “In the last years of Einstein’s life, the last twenty-five years, his tradition in a certain sense failed him,” Oppenheimer would write in 1965, in a lecture later published in the New York Review of Books. (Though they’re in the same town, the Institute is not affiliated with Princeton University.) While they had known each other for years before he came to the Institute and he respected Einstein-who wouldn’t?-Oppenheimer thought of his predecessor “as a living patron saint of physics, not a working scientist,” Bird and Sherwin write. Einstein only has a handful of scenes in Oppenheimer, but each of them packs a similar punch-particularly another (fictionalized) meeting that the film keeps coming back to, revealing its full significance only in the movie’s final moments.Īnd though he and Oppenheimer both lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey after the war-specifically at the Institute for Advanced Study, where Oppenheimer served as director from 1947 to 1966-they were not particularly close friends. (Though Oppenheimer’s memorable reply is actually lifted from a different exchange.) The scene is a neat illustration of how these two scientific giants both mirrored and opposed one another. Like many of the details in Christopher Nolan’s script, both lines of dialogue come straight from Oppenheimer’s source material, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s biography American Prometheus. “Damnit,” he replies, “I happen to love this country.” (It’s what Einstein was forced to do to his homeland of Germany, after all-and for understandable reasons, he would never trust governments or politicians.) What the essentially stateless Einstein doesn’t understand is that for New York City–born Oppenheimer, this simply isn’t an option. If this is the reward the American government gives Oppenheimer after the years he spent developing the nuclear bomb that ended World War II, Einstein tells him in the film, Oppenheimer should simply “turn his back” on America. Outside his home in Princeton, he encounters a colleague: Albert Einstein ( Tom Conti), who doesn’t seem to get why his fellow physicist is lying down and taking it. Despite the scientist’s service to his country, he’s being accused of harboring treasonous sympathies an unofficial trial with a foregone conclusion is dragging him through the mud. Robert Oppenheimer at one of his lowest moments. This is aimed at for hopeless romantics (myself included) so maybe it would've been smarter to focus a little more on the couple.There’s a gutting scene midway through Oppenheimer that finds Cillian Murphy’s J. I'm not sure who to blame here - the writers or the director, for editing out good moments between the pairing. While the relationship with the child is well-thought out, and though unoriginal, fun to watch, the relationship between Messer and Holly was too quick. I hate to say this, because I love Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, but the script is pretty run of the mill. What else happens is not only predictable, but almost inevitable. After their mutual friends are killed in a car accident, they're the only option. Two polar opposites stuck to raise a child. I hate to say this, because I love Better than average. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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