Oppenheimer

 

Whenever people have said, "You've gotta to see this movie, it's wonderful," I am invariably disappointed.

That wasn't the case with Oppenheimer. 

I lived through the dropping of the bomb, although I was too young to remember. I do remember seeing A-bomb tests on television news. 

I remember bomb drills when we hid under our desks at school, heads down, hands over our necks. I wondered what Russian children were doing. Did they really want to kill me and my friends?

The movie was brilliant: acting, filming, writing.

I found a parallel to today's situation only without the technology. Power games among the powerful and those who want to be more powerful are nothing new. The idea of my weapons have to be better than your weapons and I need to do it first, is the same today.

The fear of communism and socialism keeps popping up as a theme as often as it still falls from right-wing politicians of today and with as little understanding now as it was then. 

The way numbers of deaths seem somehow unimportant to those that cause those deaths is the same.

As much as I adore life, I abhor much of humanity that seeks to control and destroy.

52-year-old writer, producer, director Christopher Nolan has produced a thought-provoking masterpiece.

My husband has done a dueling blog on his impressions of the movie. https://lovinglifeineurope.blogspot.com/2023/01/hope-for-near-homeless.html