Oppenheimer [4K Ultra HD] [2023] [Region Free]

Superb film, would highly recommend it, great acting, subject matter.

Not much to say really, this UHD Blu-Ray is a benchmark of what modern cinema at home can be, both in the movie itself and the out of this world picture and sound quality achievable at home only by UHD Blu-Ray, reference quality stuff.

This is a great film with some truly great acting. On the downside the pacing is not great which is exacerbated by the length of the film and the annoyingly persistent musical score. The film is really about Oppenheimer's combination of scientific genius and leadership skills, which often do not go together. It is also a classic Frankenstein story with the creator of a monster working to try to mitigate the damage done by it. A sub-plot describes how Oppenheimer's arrogance and lack of tact led to his downfall.

Don't expect an epic action film, with IMAX shots of nuclear bombs blowing up everywhere... the bomb really has very little airtime in this 3 hour film, and it doesn't linger on the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Of course you are made aware of it all but that isn't what this film concentrates on... At it's heart, is a character study of a troubled genius, set against the backdrop of WWII and some of the most defining science in the history of mankind and how the man was treat by the USA after those monumental events when there was no more need (or at least that's what they thought) of him. A heavyweight ensemble cast that is as star studded as they get... Cillian Murphy plays the role of the great titular scientist and does a remarkable job of portraying the many facets of this no doubt complex and somewhat flawed genius. While Robert Downey Junior excels in what I think is probably one of his best ever roles as the antagonistic Lewis Strauss. While I feel it's a great film, I recognise it certainly won't suit everybody's taste. It is very long, does jump back and forth in the timeline a fair bit requiring a decent amount of concentration to keep track. It's certainly not for the easily bored or those with a short attention span.

This is not a bad movie, but it has been done before, by the BBC with its 1980 7-part miniseries of the same name, starring Sam Waterston, so this new version must give us something new to justify its existence, let alone its $100 million budget (compared to $1.5 million for the BBC). I don't think it does. It is a long film, three hours, but comparing the two I think shows the advantages of a miniseries for telling a long and complex story. Supposedly Nolan based his film on the 2005 Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus, but for me the screenplay frequently tracks with the BBC, perhaps because both were working from the same well-documented historical record. The BBC did a better job of portraying Oppenheimer's academic career before the war, his left-wing leanings and connections, the nature and strengths and weaknesses of his work as a theoretical physicist, and most of all the constant dramas of his affair with Jean Tatlock. It is also better on the final push to build the bomb in 1944-45, the mistakes, the failures, the clashing egos, and how decisions were driven by limited supplies of both U-235 and plutonium. The film version ignores the differences between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and never says that the Little Boy design was never tested before being dropped on Hiroshima; the Trinity test was of the Fat Man plutonium bomb. Cillian Murphy looks more like Oppenheimer than Sam Waterston did, but I still found Waterston more compelling. Murphy's voice is often a hoarse near-whisper. The film has a star-studded cast, but few of them give career-best performances. Emily Blunt is strong as Kitty Oppenheimer, but Gary Oldman is a caricature as Harry Truman; Florence Pugh insufficiently fragile as Jean Tatlock; and Matt Damon never quite takes on the persona of Gen. Groves. David Suchet was a vastly superior Edward Teller. By the way, Teller is not fairly treated by Nolan, portrayed as a bit of a buffoon, and the treatment of Groves is flat, too much as an adversary of Oppenheimer and insufficiently as the organizational genius behind the whole project without whom the physicists for all their brilliance would simply have been chalking numbers on blackboards. Kenneth Nicholls complained about the BBC's portrrayal of him as a horse-holder for Groves, but Nolan repeats that portrayal. The BBC version had the advantage of simplicity, telling the story straight from front to back, while Nolan uses four narrative streams interwoven: a 1948 AEC meeting on developing the H-bomb following the Soviet A-bomb test; Oppenhiemer's 1954 security hearing, which stripped him of his clearance and ended his government career; Lewis Strauss's 1959 confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Commerce, and the story itself, which is cut in as a series of flashbacks from the other events, until it over-takes and merges with those events. Nolan is more forthright than the BBC was about naming Strauss as the driver of the 1954 hearing. Note that while Strauss was dead by 1980, hsi widow was still alive. However, the emphasis on Strauss and in particular on his confimrmation hearing as Commerce Secretary seems to me unbalanced. Strauss was not involved with the Manhattan project and only came into contact with Oppenheimer after the war, when Oppenheimer was more and more doubtful about the consequences of nuclear arms and an advocate of not developing the H-bomb without first trying to negotiate it away with the Soviets. Oppenheimer was an issue in Strauss's Commerce hearings, but really Strauss was a devious Washington operator who had made many enemies, and there is nothing like an advice-and-consent appointment to show who one's enemies are (as friends of mine have learned to their cost), and Oppenheimer was just a stick for his enemies to beat him with. The screen time spent on the Strauss hearing could have been better spent filling out other parts of the story. Treatment of the ecurity hearing could have been more concise, as well. It was a kangaroo court with much time taken up with Roger Robb twisting Oppenheimer's words and is not the most interesting part of the film. Oppenheimer was a man of, and to some extent a victim of, his times. In the 1930s the Communists were so important to the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War that if one wanted to fight Franco one could not avoid an association with them. Then the war came, and in a struggle to the death with Germany and allied with the USSR, both the U.S. and the UK tolerated people with very left-wing connections in sensitive positions, at times to their ultimate loss. By 1954 the wheel had turned and Communism was now the great enemy. Had Oppenheimer been more self-serving, he might have been quicker to cut some of his left-wing ties, but he did not, and that made him vulnerable when Strauss and William Borden turned on him.

Excellent

Ich bewerte hier nur das Steelbook: Geprägter Rahmen: Nein Geprägter Titel: Ja Geprägtes Artwork: Nein Lackeffekt Matt: Nein Lackeffekt Glossy: Nein Andere Effekte: Nein Bedruckte Innenseite: Ja Cover/Artwork: 3 von 5 Sternen Fazit: Das Artwork/Cover gefällt mir ganz gut, allerdings finde ich das der ersten Edition ein Tick besser. Der Titel ist wie bei der ersten Edition ebenfalls schön geprägt, hat aber leider auch wieder keine weitere Prägungen oder Matt/Glossy Effekte. Ich vergebe insgesamt 4 Sterne dafür.

Para acompanhar um filme deste calibre, nada melhor de que uma edição como esta em 4K, com HDR e som DTS-HD. Tem a particularidade de ter dois aspect ratios, ou seja nas cenas visualmente mais importantes tem um formato ao estilo IMAX para uma melhor experiência de visualização. Vem ainda com um disco com a versão em Full HD e ainda um terceiro que está repleto de extras. Altamente recomendado!

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