Oppenheimer
Everything you wanted to know about American exceptionalism, the military-industrial complex and cancel culture, but Christopher Nolan failed to tell you. Or did he?
This article reflects on the topicality and the socially critical charge of Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023). The author delves into three issues, which the film shows in their infancy, but which have flourished to this day in all their ominous glory: the unbridled development of the military industry, which ignores collateral damage and bets on the mantra “more weapons for more peace”; American exceptionalism, which in its modern incarnation prevents the United States from peacefully existing in a multipolar world; and cancel culture, which utilises discreditation as a method of silencing critics and political opponents. The author observes that Oppenheimer remains far from dissident bluntness, but it certainly offers a critique of the hegemonic Western understanding of contemporary and past reality.
The integral version of this article can be found in the printed KINO!