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