Oppenheimer is finally in the room

Christopher Nolan’s colossal book about the Manhattan Project and the man who made it possible arrives in Italy early this morning.

When World War II broke out in the United States, there had been talk for some time about the atom and the tremendous energy it could unleash, and there was serious concern that Nazi Germany, which had several important physicists including Werner Karl Heisenberg, the creator of quantum mechanics, might to use this power. To get ahead of them, the Manhattan Project was created, and a young physicist was put in charge of the project, who may have been somewhat less qualified than the team provided to him, which included several past and future Nobel laureates, but to whom he had demonstrated his ability to manage and unite scientists. such a level. The physicist was J. Robert Oppenheimer.

The project then took much longer than expected; fears about Heisenberg proved unfounded, and Nazi Germany fell before the atomic bomb was even ready. Two bombs true, one uranium (a little boy) and one with plutonium (fat man) were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to surrender.

Christopher Nolan in movie Oppenheimer tells the story and human history of this very special person (played by Cillian Murphy), cut off from the reality around him to the point of being unaware of the existence of the great crisis of 29, unable to love his wife (Emily Blunt) and children, but desperately in love with Jean Tetlock (in the film Florence Pugh). Fascinated by the Vedic religion (hence his famous phrase “they’re dead, destroyer of worlds”), after the war he would be accused of colluding with the Russian Communists by Lewis Strauss (played by Robert Downey Jr.). ), who will be able to gain access to the secrets of atomic energy.

Released worldwide in late July, Universal Distribution, perhaps fearful of poor summer results, decided to delay the release until late August. Oppenheimer therefore today it is released in Italian cinemas.

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The film follows the life of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb. The film is based on the biography Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. Triumph and tragedy of the scientist (American Prometheus) by Kai Byrd and Martin J. Sherwin.

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