This film is so serious and professional. I'm sure some of the very high ratings are because of these reasons. I guess, some of the people who consider this as a perfect film, can't even elaborate about all the things that were going on.
Christopher Nolan is a great filmmaker and he did a good job on this film but its screenplay wasn't even good. When I first heard about a film about J. Robert Oppenheimer and atomic bomb development I was so looking forward to it and was picturing a lot of things on my mind that this film could depict but it didn't. The humanistic aspect, logical aspects, psychological aspects, the destructive effects of Oppenheimer's "invention" and many more things.
But it still has a lot to offer that I can't say that it's a bad film or a mediocre one.
The other aspect that I didn't like about this film was its editing which was done by Jennifer Lame. I call such editing approaches as "ADHD editing" or "Rabbit on coffee editing" for Instagram generation that can't stomach a video for more than twenty seconds. Her editing methods made the whole experience and story less appealing and a bit chaotic.
Hoyte van Hoytema, the cinematographer, did a great job. Lots of the scenes were excellently shot and were beautiful and helped the unnecessary nonlinear narrative to convey the message better.
I liked Ludwig Göransson's score. It was very well written and emotionally helped the film a lot.
Cillian Murphy and almost every other actors'/"actresses" works were flawless and they put a lot of time and emotion into this historical piece. Cillian Murphy's performance was something special and unique.
I'm not completely convinced about the choice of "black-and-white" for Lewis Strauss's perspective but I may be wrong about it, and maybe it was done to make things easier to follow.
After all, there were a lot of things that they could cover on such topic but they didn't. But I'm glad that it wasn't historically inaccurate.
It's one of those films that I find hard to rate. I try not to be so fixed on my taste and be fair towards every art form so I give this a seven out of ten rating.
7/10.
Christopher Nolan is a great filmmaker and he did a good job on this film but its screenplay wasn't even good. When I first heard about a film about J. Robert Oppenheimer and atomic bomb development I was so looking forward to it and was picturing a lot of things on my mind that this film could depict but it didn't. The humanistic aspect, logical aspects, psychological aspects, the destructive effects of Oppenheimer's "invention" and many more things.
But it still has a lot to offer that I can't say that it's a bad film or a mediocre one.
The other aspect that I didn't like about this film was its editing which was done by Jennifer Lame. I call such editing approaches as "ADHD editing" or "Rabbit on coffee editing" for Instagram generation that can't stomach a video for more than twenty seconds. Her editing methods made the whole experience and story less appealing and a bit chaotic.
Hoyte van Hoytema, the cinematographer, did a great job. Lots of the scenes were excellently shot and were beautiful and helped the unnecessary nonlinear narrative to convey the message better.
I liked Ludwig Göransson's score. It was very well written and emotionally helped the film a lot.
Cillian Murphy and almost every other actors'/"actresses" works were flawless and they put a lot of time and emotion into this historical piece. Cillian Murphy's performance was something special and unique.
I'm not completely convinced about the choice of "black-and-white" for Lewis Strauss's perspective but I may be wrong about it, and maybe it was done to make things easier to follow.
After all, there were a lot of things that they could cover on such topic but they didn't. But I'm glad that it wasn't historically inaccurate.
It's one of those films that I find hard to rate. I try not to be so fixed on my taste and be fair towards every art form so I give this a seven out of ten rating.
7/10.