[ SECRET POST #6065 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6065 ⌋

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[meadowphoenix]

....welll that's the thing. I do think genuis v. normal workers whose lives he destroyed is more interesting than genius v. government/science buddies. Like nolan is simply not going to give me anything interesting thematically in the latter. He's just not going to do it.

but I agree that there's very little point in asking specific directors and writers to expand their wheelhouse in specific way. Like you can definitely make criticism regarding what the films is "saying" versus how the film said it, and those criticisms might include the absence of figures. But I'd have more respect for people reviewing nolan's work and going "why are we giving this dude this much clout when his themes are persistently X?" than "why didn't nolan do something else entirely?"

[(Anonymous)]

....welll that's the thing. I do think genuis v. normal workers whose lives he destroyed is more interesting than genius v. government/science buddies

IDK like, it's a more interesting theme but it's also not really a theme that you can treat in a cinematic way. it's difficult to wrap that material into a cinematic form because the relationship between Oppenheimer and the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is attenuated through so many different processes across so much distance and time. it's a very diffuse thing to try to depict.

certainly it's not a theme that Chris Nolan could ever treat in a cinematic way, but it would be very difficult for anyone. out of people who've made Hollywood movies who are still working, maybe Terrence Malick could do it? IDK.

[meadowphoenix]

I'm not talking about the victims of hiroshima and nagasaki. I'm talking about the radiation damage of the people who lived in los alamos, the town. they tested the bomb and didn't tell the people in the town, who then died from radiation damage.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, that's not a movie Christopher Nolan is going to make. But yeah, I think there have been more and more interesting books, TV shows and movies about the people affected by scientific and technical advances, and in some cases (like the family of Henrietta Lacks) that can have real, lasting impact. Radium Girls is another one.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. They shouldn't be crammed in as an aside in another movie, they are histories and lives that would stand on their own merit if translated to media.