Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer" is an explosive masterpiece
“Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s masterful portrait
of the man known as the father of the atomic bomb, has been anticipated
with some skepticism
among filmgoers
who wonder how Nolan’s penchant
for Imax
cameras and thundering sound designs would serve a story that, at its core, amounts to scenes of different groups of men arguing in different kinds of rooms. It turns out that Nolan’s monumentalist
aesthetic
is perfectly suited for a story that otherwise could barely fit within a feature-length narrative
: It’s too big, too consequential
, its layers of hubris
and history too unruly
to be neatly
contained. If “Oppenheimer” is a supersize movie, that’s because anything else would do a disservice
to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the tragic
figure at its core brought to fascinatingly
paradoxical
life by Cillian Murphy.
tips
portrait:肖像;半生像
anticipate:预期
skepticism:怀疑(skept- 怀疑)
filmgoer:看电影的人;影迷
penchant:爱好;嗜好
monumentalist:纪念注意
monument:纪念碑🪦
aesthetic:美学的;有美感的(aesthet- = feeling,感觉)
narrative:叙述的;故事的
consequent:随后发生的事情;结果
consequential:随之发生的;重大的
hubris:傲慢;狂妄野心
unruly:难以控制的;无法无天的(rule)
neatly:干净整洁地;均称地(neat 干净整洁的,均称的)
disservice:伤害;帮倒忙
tragic:悲催的;悲剧的(tragedy 悲剧)
fascinatingly:迷人的
paradoxical:矛盾的
paradox:矛盾