Oppenheimer

The main evening IMAX screening of Oppenheimer was sold out on a Monday, which surprised me for a downer biopic. And the mostly closeups of intense faces wasn’t a big use of the giant screen. But the sound system really did get a workout.

Christopher Nolan intercut the flashbacks and frame story (and the flashbacks in the frame story) but largely kept things clear through use of colour.

The frame story also provides dramatic uncertainty that the main story doesn’t for anybody going to see it who knows who Oppenheimer was. I didn’t know who Strauss was, for one.

Though I still figured out his role in the drama after I think two scenes.