This film may be good entertainment. Good luck to all those that enjoyed it. But for me it does rather missed the mark. I appreciate it is a dramatization about historical figures.
And not necessarily meant to be educational. Given that it would be better if the mind set of the scriptwriters had been set at the time of the actual events.
Rather than in the prevailing environment of today.
At the time of the scientific enterprise. The world was in the midst of the worst catastrophe that history had so far witnessed. The whole of Europe was under German and Italian fascist dominance.
In Southeast Asia, it was the Imperial Japanese junta who were performing a similar function.
Only the USSR and the United States of America had so far not fallen under the fascist yoke.
Although both countries had experienced invasion.
So essentially the object of the United States military. Was to roll back the catastrophe that was engulfing the world. Moral niceties and whether something was right or wrong did not enter the equation. The USA was in the struggle for its very existence.
I think I have therefore given view then world which was far different to our more certain view of it today. During the Second World War there was absolutely no certainty.
Returning to historical characters. It is now widely regarded that Edward Teller and not Robert Oppenheimer. Was the ' Father of the A-bomb ' We come away from the movie very much believing that teller had little if no contribution to the A-bomb.
Furthermore. Teller was never subject to a House Un-American Activities Investigation.
Unlike Oppenheimer, whose answers to quite straightforward questions. Left a great deal of doubt as to his loyalty to the United States.
I do hope that as a result of watching this film. And having had their attention drawn to the events depicted. Enlightened persons. We'll have a thirst to dig deeper and learn the true facts of one of the momentous events. In the life of many of us.
And not necessarily meant to be educational. Given that it would be better if the mind set of the scriptwriters had been set at the time of the actual events.
Rather than in the prevailing environment of today.
At the time of the scientific enterprise. The world was in the midst of the worst catastrophe that history had so far witnessed. The whole of Europe was under German and Italian fascist dominance.
In Southeast Asia, it was the Imperial Japanese junta who were performing a similar function.
Only the USSR and the United States of America had so far not fallen under the fascist yoke.
Although both countries had experienced invasion.
So essentially the object of the United States military. Was to roll back the catastrophe that was engulfing the world. Moral niceties and whether something was right or wrong did not enter the equation. The USA was in the struggle for its very existence.
I think I have therefore given view then world which was far different to our more certain view of it today. During the Second World War there was absolutely no certainty.
Returning to historical characters. It is now widely regarded that Edward Teller and not Robert Oppenheimer. Was the ' Father of the A-bomb ' We come away from the movie very much believing that teller had little if no contribution to the A-bomb.
Furthermore. Teller was never subject to a House Un-American Activities Investigation.
Unlike Oppenheimer, whose answers to quite straightforward questions. Left a great deal of doubt as to his loyalty to the United States.
I do hope that as a result of watching this film. And having had their attention drawn to the events depicted. Enlightened persons. We'll have a thirst to dig deeper and learn the true facts of one of the momentous events. In the life of many of us.