On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m., the world changed forever. The Trinity Test (aka the world’s first nuclear explosion), carried out in secret on a plot of empty land smack dab in the middle of New Mexico and overseen by Julius Robert Oppenheimer, proved the atomic bomb was a viable weapon of mass destruction. You can draw a direct line from that moment to the bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nuclear arms race that defined the Cold War, and the looming threat of self-assured nuclear annihilation that persists even today.
So you might naturally think that the Trinity Test would be the most important scene in "Oppenheimer", Christopher Nolan’s new movie about the so-called father of the atomic bomb. And in a way, it is. The explosion serves as the film’s climax, a visual gut punch that releases two hours of tension and kicks off "Oppenheimer"'s unexpected third act. But in another sense, that fateful test is the least important part of the movie: a brief detour into blockbuster spectacle in what’s otherwise Nolan’s most grounded, contemplative, and beautiful film to date. FULL STORY from Inverse
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