Commentary
This isn’t a film review. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to see “Oppenheimer.” Although I look forward to it, both because I’m a fan of its director Christopher Nolan and because of the importance of the topic.
The blockbuster movie is a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who is considered the creator of the atomic bomb due to his role in leading the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.
This is the sort of movie that invariably provokes all sorts of public discussion about both history and today. The best works of genre—whether they be history, science fiction, or a Western—are often thinly veiled allegories for our current place and time….