Oppenheimer

Nolan splits the story between the building of the bomb and the hearing that tries to file the man who built it. Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer is filmed as a face that has already seen the result. The Los Alamos rooms are crowded on purpose. Robert Downey Jr.’s Strauss is the other plot, a Washington argument about credit. The Universal trailer uses the countdown and the silence. The film’s subject is the committee that comes after the flash.