Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (15A) stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the ‘American Prometheus’ and ‘the Father of the Atomic Bomb’. Neither description, of course, nor both combined, tell the full story: the film – written by Nolan, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin – opens in the 1920s with a young Oppenheimer inspired to explore the bizarre new world of quantum physics, which give rise to ‘troubled by visions of a hidden universe’.
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