Saw this amazing sight on auction online when I was looking for passports online. As a passport collector, it is such a rare sight and certainly is something I wouldn't expect to come by that often.

Every passports tells a very meaningful story about someone's life, what they have been through and where did they go. I have only collected passports for more than a year but it is a wonderful journey.

More info on the passport in the comments, as well as the link to the auction.

That scene where multiple people, including Strauss, Lawrence, Rabi, Nichols, Oppie and many other people were presented, they were all there on short notice to discuss what their steps should be, now that the Soviets have an atomic bomb as well.

My question is: I'm curious why General Groves wasn't included in the scene; he led the project and was such an important part of it, why would his subordinate Nichols be there but not him?

I made this account just to make this post. Oppenheimer, for me, is Nolan's finest work. The movie is flawless from start to finish. I am very passionate and love this movie so much. I watched it twice in the cinema and honestly regret not watching it more when I had the chance. Also watched it around 20 times at home because why not? The level of detail and how every moment of the movie is important make it a joy to watch. It's just too good and seeing people calling it boring and a bad film makes me question them. Love the movie and just wanted to share about it.

My background is math/CS/physics and I read the accounts of Richard Feynman about his days in Los Alamos, and in Malcolm Gladwell's outlier about how tactfully Oppenheimer managed to convince that he deserved to be pardoned for poisoning his lab instructor.

• The poisoning part was one of the weakest scenes in this movie. There was no inkling or motivation that would convince the audience why he did what he did. It just came out of the blue.

• His scientific studies/early college days are dumbed down to a 3 min sequence with pretty violin playing in the bg (Can You Hear the Music) and Oppenheimer just having the superpower of imagining atoms and nuclei firing midair. That was extremely cringe.

• What the hell was that glass thrown to the end of the room all about? I understand it is meant to be something related to physics, but I can't fathom what it could be. Also cringe. No one behaves like that.

• And before you come and say that he waa quirky, I am "quite quirky" too and stare into blank space thinking about hard math problems all the time. How the film depicted these aspects was cringe.

• And after all of these pretty CGI with atoms flying around, we don't see any physics insight that Oppenheimer has throughout the whole movie. He was more like a politician.

• And its true that he had to manage a lot of stuff, but they should have portrayed his genius and contributions much better.

• Why did Cillian act like Oppe was stoned for the entire movie? That blank gazing stare, 24x7. No person can be like that 24x7.

• We don't get to see a lot of new physics that gets developed there. We don't see how other scientists contributed immensely. For instance some strides were made in numerical computation in Computer Science, and the film doesn't even glance over this detail, even though they touch the topic of recruiting housewives for computation.

• We don't see his interactions, one on one, with other scientists and how his social life developed. The whole spy undertone took too much of the script.

• At the end, we don't even get to know the man. We just get used to his blank, constant far-fetched stare

• I don't even know what happened in the third act of the movie. Too many names, too many organisations, GEC, AEC, GOP, senate, trial, private hearing, it was all a mess. I grant that I am not gifted when it comes to politics, but I can't see how anyone would enjoy that bit of the movie. It was just meaningless dialogue, and in the end we didn't even clearly understand what Oppe's stance on the bomb was.

This is of course a personal opinion, but I enjoyed Nolan's other works; Interstellar, TDK trilogy much much more.

Currently I am working on an art piece that's suppose to symbolizes what Oppenheimer was, as the man and the bomb. One side is dark and charded representing the bomb side. For the other side I need something to represent the humanity of Oppenheimer. I need suggestions of what can represent his human element.

I'm curious to know what you think Oppenheimer would have said about the Chernobyl disaster if he was still alive when it happened?

That's it really.

In the movie, Oppenheimer was not regarded as the best at numbers, but he could "hear the music," and was transferred to a college that would better suit his talents. I am currently applying to colleges, and I am left feeling like even the top colleges seem very "cookie-cutter," are only focused on how good individuals are at the numbers aspect, and only care about students staying at their own institutions. Is there any college/University that reflects more of a free thought culture nowadays as we saw in the movie, where Oppenheimer's potential was the main care in the college, not just his on-paper performance?

Classic Groves. Although I do think that the movie portrayed him as somewhat likable and charismatic whereas he was a complete ass in real life.

One of the best things there is on YT about the movie is the unofficial expanded score that has over 20 tracks that are not part of the official playlist of the Movie OST, but do you think we could see in the future an official expanded version of the official OST with those missing tracks?

For instance, Interstellar 3/4 years ago had something similar, they officially released many musics from the movie that were not part of the official ost from Zimmer.

Asking this because I'm a big fan of soundtracks and I'd love to get on my hands a possible limited edition collector's item

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I didn’t see it when it came out but a work colleague who did; my first question to him was “did they show the bombing?” He said no and I was disappointed. I deliberated on if I would even watch.

Well I watched it and I think they made the right move not showing the bombing but alluding to it, speaking about it and portraying the aftermath; I think it’s great as is.

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Some may disagree but I think Oppenheimer truly is Nolan’s strongest film. Between the cast, performances, cinematography, editing, and music, the movie just feels perfect. I feel like there is so much to unpack from the story and characters that I know I’ll be watching it regularly for years to come.

Just like the first viewing, the ending left me with a haunting feeling. Even though we’re far from nuclear war compared to the Cold War, just knowing it could technically still happen merely due to the existence of nuclear weapons is downright chilling. I can’t imagine the conflict and guilt Oppie felt in his final days.

Physicists race to the bomb.

Take a minute and appreciate how they have shown fussion results with that old equipment on screen to audiance.

‘Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.’