Really hits close to home. Seen many lives destroy by people trying to do "the right thing" only to wake up to the realization they were unknowingly aiding and abetting the war machine.
I think the film Oppenheimer is not a well made film as you say it is. The last third is structured as a feeble Melodrama with a real petty villain and an ineffective goody. So there is no Griffithian last minute rescue in this Melodrama. I don't know what criteria you use Greg to criticise the film thematically, as you rightly do, and still maintain its artistic 'brilliance'. I have written to show how exactly it is constructed and its weakness but you are not interested in that approach which is sad.
Thanks, specially for the Szilard quotation. "Our" moral position has been weakened in "our" own eyes and the radiation of falsehood regarding these weapons is meant to mutate us.
Looking forward to seeing this.
Really hits close to home. Seen many lives destroy by people trying to do "the right thing" only to wake up to the realization they were unknowingly aiding and abetting the war machine.
Thank-you for covering this topic!
I think the film Oppenheimer is not a well made film as you say it is. The last third is structured as a feeble Melodrama with a real petty villain and an ineffective goody. So there is no Griffithian last minute rescue in this Melodrama. I don't know what criteria you use Greg to criticise the film thematically, as you rightly do, and still maintain its artistic 'brilliance'. I have written to show how exactly it is constructed and its weakness but you are not interested in that approach which is sad.
Thanks, specially for the Szilard quotation. "Our" moral position has been weakened in "our" own eyes and the radiation of falsehood regarding these weapons is meant to mutate us.