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One of the most anticipated films of the year, Oppenheimer is not just a feature film; it alternates between black and white and color formats – and there's a very clever reason for that.
Christopher Nolan's latest film hit theaters on Friday, July 21, and movie fans are flocking to see it on the big screen.
"Oppenheimer" follows the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb that was used in World War II. This earned him the title "Father of the Atomic Bomb".
Running an impressive three hours, the film also stars Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh and Matt Damon.
At first, "Oppenheimer" can be a little confusing as it switches between color and black-and-white scenes, but it's not about marking past and present, as you might expect.
The scientist appears colorfully in scenes depicting his student days as well as in scenes from the later stages of his life.
But it also appears in black and white sections. So you're going to be really confused if you watch it and think it's flashbacks.
Even Downey Jr.'s character, former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, was seen in color and black-and-white scenes. These scenes are sometimes from the past and the future.
So it turns out that the color scenes are from Oppenheimer's point of view, while the black and white scenes are from Strauss's point of view.
The Oppenheimer production notes provided by Insider explain: “Nolan decided that the scenes shown from Oppenheimer's point of view would be in color (he also wrote them in the first person, an unconventional choice for the script), with occasional cuts to evocative, surreal images that symbolically express his inner world.
Nolan told Total Film: “I wrote the script in the first person, which I've never done before. I don't know if anyone has ever done this….”
The director explained that "color scenes are subjective", while black and white are "objective".
He added: "I wrote the color scenes in the first person. So for an actor reading it, in a way, it would be very scary.”
This biographical thriller is definitely worth seeing, with many praising it as "visually stunning" and an "epic masterpiece".
Screenwriter and critic Paul Schrader also called it "the best and most important film of this century".
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