War on Film – Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is a classic Christopher Nolan movie. Its subject matter is on the grand scale, concerning nothing less than the end of the world. It works on many different levels, telling the story of the rise and fall of one of the 20th century’s most famous scientists. It is visually inventive. It plays with time and does not contain a linear narrative. And, like most Nolan films, it is far too long. Nolan wrote the screenplay based on a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer, American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. The book had been offered to various directors and producers, including Sam Mendes (director of American Beauty, Jarhead, and the James Bond movies Skyfall and Spe