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Oppenheimer (Oppenheimer, 2023)
Quite a powerful piece. When I started watching and saw the three-hour timer, I thought it would be heavily dragged out, but no, all three hours fly by at a breakneck pace. At some point I even thought I'd accidentally messed up the player settings and it was playing at x1.5 speed, plus people were talking insanely fast, practically in a tongue-twister manner.
On one hand, the time and place are chosen excellently, a very romantic setting. On the other, the themes touched upon are also topical — in the detective part there are grim conclusions about humanity, and in those grim conclusions scientists are stewing, people who just wanted the Germans not to take over the world, but it turned out somewhat differently... My recommendation is strictly positive, Nolan hasn't lost his touch.
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An interesting fact from real life:

Having lost his security clearance for classified materials, Oppenheimer continued teaching and conducting research with the support of many members of the scientific community who considered him unjustly wronged. In 1966 he left the Institute for Advanced Study and the following year died of throat cancer.

In December 2022, a few days after the release of the "Oppenheimer" trailer, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm annulled the 1954 decision to revoke Oppenheimer's permission to access classified information. She acknowledged that the proceedings in this case had been conducted with violations.

So Robert Oppenheimer died, and only 56 years later, and only because Nolan conceived a little movie based on his story, did people remember him and decide to publicly exonerate the hero. Curious, to say the least.