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  • megane-kun
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    21 year ago

    Finally got to watch Oppenheimer. I was glad me and my companion splurged out on a theater with reclining seats because it was quite a long one. I also had to take a pee break in the middle of the movie, which is something I’ve never done in recent memory.

    In the second half of the movie, I remembered discussions about Christopher Nolan’s statements about it, though I remembered it as “IT experts and AI,” which, upon looking it up, wasn’t that far off.

    First impressions though: I suck at recognizing faces, especially with the way the movie is structured. I had difficulty remembering who’s who, which is quite a shame, tbh.

    • eeeeyayyyy
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      1 year ago

      The magic of Nolan: Nonlinearity

      I had this issue with his pictures since Dunkirk (2017), but still appreciated how they were edited. It’s like a building a snowball.

      • megane-kun
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        11 year ago

        I actually liked how some scenes (mostly in the first and last thirds of the movie) jump back and forth, while maintaining a good narrative flow, but damn if I can remember who is who.

        It’s not as confusing as Memento, nor Primer, and it doesn’t need to be. I think the use of nonlinear storytelling here is to highlight how each character has faced the consequences of their achievements (as a group, or indivually). The line Albert Einstein gave Oppenheimer at the end of the film drives this point home.

        IDK though, I think I missed a good chunk of the movie by spending most of it trying to remember who’s who.