The summer’s prestige picture, an historical epic hanging on a scientific achievement that was also a great moral and ethical quandary, is a three hour argument for the stardom of Cillian Murphy.
We’re all dying to see this one. I did a college internship at a PBS affiliate one summer that was finishing up a documentary on a couple of atomic scientist veterans of the project, and I got to help out in suggesting classical music (public domain) for segments of the sound track, seeing as how I had been working in public radio all during school. That turned out to be a deep dive into something that few films — “Fat Man and Little Boy” among them — have tried to tackle.
A grand national scientific achievement that can be celebrated and debated until all involved are blue in the face, this is a big canvas and important subject, one worthy of Christopher Nolan’s companion piece to “Dunkirk.”
They’re showing it on a BIG screen, I hope. We’ll see.
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