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To be uncomfortable with the film Oppenheimer?

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LKM23 · 21/07/2023 18:23

I haven't seen the film, I'm sure it's a brilliant thriller and will be a Blockbuster hit. I don't think I'll watch it though, it makes my feel really uncomfortable.

It feels like a man who at the end of the day killed thousands of people and damaged millions is being celebrated and turned into a hero.

I lived in Japan for 10 years in my twenties. I visited both Hiroshima and Nagasaki and spent a lot of time with people both directly and indirectly affected by the dropping of the bombs. Those scars are real and still there and will be for a very very long time. It changed Japan and the people who live there forever and at the end of the day I think he was an awful person.

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Trinity65 · 24/07/2023 17:38

MissEDashwood19 · 21/07/2023 18:53

Quite. Perhaps read the "Rape of Nanking" or listen to interviews of PoWs and "comfort women" before turning the Japanese into innocent victims.

The likelihood of the Japanese surrendering without enormous loss of lives on both sides was remote. Absolutely horrendous for the poor civilians, but blame should also be apportioned to their beloved Emperor and the sadistic military for unleashing a blood-thirsty war and committing nurmerous atrocities.

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HaveYouHeardOfARoadAtlas · 24/07/2023 17:39

I do get Rob Lowe and Robert downey junior muddled up as well They look like twins to me.

To be uncomfortable with the film Oppenheimer?
Lacucuracha · 24/07/2023 18:10

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon for me.

MavisMcMinty · 24/07/2023 18:13

I can’t tell one Hollywood Ryan from another.

twentyonepoundnote · 24/07/2023 19:54

HaveYouHeardOfARoadAtlas · 24/07/2023 17:28

That is so odd as the "white men in suits" are very identifiable by the very well known actors that portray them.

I have bad face blindness and there are very few celebs that I would recognise. I score really highly on any face recognition test. I had to stop watching the Sopranos as I had no idea who anyone who the main character was. I need extra things to hook onto, so women are often easier as they’re more diverse hair styles/clothing.

I find it really bad in real life. I work as a midwife and remember once looking after a woman in labour for hours and hours who had a friend with her. Both had dark hair. After the baby was born I had left them in the room for a bit and then went back in the room and started talking to the friend thinking she was the woman who had just given birth! The woman who’d just given birth was actually in the shower.

if I see someone out of context I will struggle to know that I know them. It’s awful when people come up to me and obviously know me. When Dd was at primary school there was a girl in her class with a similar brown bob and I couldn’t tell them apart when they came out of school.

I could tell who Oppenheimer was all the way through the film as he looked quite distinctive. I knew he was the guy from Peaky Blinders but if I hadn’t known that I wouldn’t have recognised him and I watched Peaky Blinders in lock down. I did recognise Matt Damon actually. You say there were other famous actors in it but I didn’t recognise anyone else.

Its miserable, isn't it - I dont recognise my own children quite often , and actually they are fine with it, but I've had to keep it secret for years that I can't tell my brothers apart. I hate it. I just never use their names, in case I have the wrong one. They are 4 years apart in age, so it was fine until they were both in their 20s, but its awful now

WhatADrabCarpet · 24/07/2023 20:51

OP.
I saw the film today.

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick about the film.

Freshair1 · 24/07/2023 23:01

The film definitely doesn't glorify anything. It presents the science, the people behind the calculations, the engineers. Above all, it shows the politics and game playing.

Freshair1 · 25/07/2023 07:27

Oh my god. That'll be Nigel with the Brie!!! Random actor alert. One of the scientists played the chief nerd in 10 Things I Hate About You. Having slept on it, the film was hugely 'talky', mostly about politics and how people are screwed over. The most interesting character was his wife who simmered with barely concealed fury the whole way through. A snapshot of how shit it must have been to be an intelligent woman reduced to a housewife.

MsAmerica · 29/07/2023 01:34

ChristmasFluff · 21/07/2023 20:35

Love @MsAmerica 's response, which really made me think.

But why start a thread when you haven't watched the film?

You have no idea what message the film will give, or the questions it will raise. For all you know, the film may be designed to bring people's attention to exactly the issues you raise.

But hey, why waste a last chance to parade ignorance and bring even more publicity to a film you think you will hate.....

Or maybe you are one of those who still believes Life of Brian is blasphemous, out of never having watched it?

You also bring up a good point, @ChristmasFluff, which I didn't consciously think about at the time, but your post made me realize - I might have reacted differently if a person said they didn't want to see it, AFTER HAVING DELIBERATELY READ SOME SERIOUS REVIEWS, and concluding that it was a bad or misleading movie.

There are some subjects I won't watch because I find them upsetting - in my case, 's. plane crashes and Alzheimer's. But I feel that history, even if it's just a well-rated feature film and not a documentary, shouldn't be automatically shied away from.

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