"TAKING RISKS: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S ‘OPPENHEIMER’ “
Instability runs rampant nowadays, showing itself in this summer's cinematic Block Busters. Movies like "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning," "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," and "Haunted Mansion" are adventure/fantasy films that basically entertain the audience, allowing them to forget both the forthcoming 2024 election and the ongoing mistreatment of minorities, immigrants, and women who need abortions. Included in this group of movies is Christopher Nolan's "OPPENHEIMER," an odd man-out story which is a real-life chronicle of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. It also doesn't conform to the current motion pictures which are entertaining. Here's the point: "OPPENHEIMER" is ambiguous, contradictory, and emotionally distressing. Real life often is. Here's a second, related point: director/producer Christopher Nolan took a big chance by making this film in the first place and