OPPENHEIMER Ending Explained (Full Movie Breakdown)

Oppenheimer ending explained. The Oppenheimer ending and full movie has many iconic moments, but the plot leaves you with many questions. Oppenheimer's early life, the Manhattan Project, the black and white scenes, the trial and the atomic bomb scene are just some of the elements of Oppenheimer that need further discussion. In this breakdown of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, I've explained it all. There are heavy spoilers in this video.

Oppenheimer is an upcoming American biographical film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is based on American Prometheus, a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The film is a co-production between Syncopy Inc. and Atlas Entertainment; Nolan produced the film alongside Emma Thomas and Charles Roven. Cillian Murphy leads an ensemble cast as Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who is among those credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project—the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The film stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy, Michael Angarano, Guy Burnet, Danny Deferrari, Matthias Schweighöfer, Gary Oldman, Harrison Gilbertson, Emma Dumont, Devon Bostick, Trond Fausa, Christopher Denham, Josh Zuckerman, Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:36 Oppenheimer Explained
2:58 The Early Life Of Oppenheimer And Revolution Of Quantum Physics
7:00 Communism, Jean Tatlock And Kitty Oppenheimer
9:05 The Manhattan Project: Los Alamos Scenes Explained
15:35 The Trinity Test: The Nuke Scene Explained
16:46 Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombings: The Destroyer Of Worlds
19:57 The Trials Of Oppenheimer
25:01 Oppenheimer Ending Explained

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OPPENHEIMER Ending Explained (Full Movie Breakdown)

[CortexVideos]

My full breakdown for Oppenheimer is here. Hope you enjoy it and stay tuned for my spoiler video essay tomorrow and a biggest questions video early next week!

[Mclaren]

You forgot to mention... Oppie's convo with Einstein. It had NOTHING to do with Strauss. That was the point of his vendetta. It was over nothing. Einstein was just bummed out and couldnt be bothered to acknowledge a beaurocrat. But, of course, Strauss took it personal. Convinced the conversation was about him.

[jihadmakhoul]

The test scene itself is legendary. A massive fire propagated in the atmosphere in absolute silence. The silence continuous and the personnel in charge inspecting that moment in silent astonishment and the silence continues and still the focus on the fire. It is like that moment when Prometheus stole in silence the secret of fire from Olympus and delivered it to humanity. And when it became within the reach of humanity came the roar of anger from the Olympian Gods. That is when the thunderous sound of the bomb hits the audience’s ears. Using myth, physics, and philosophy to portray the moment that changed the world was an epic moment of the movie.

[ke]

what I love about the moment with Einstein by the lake, is that for Struass, it is the kindle that starts a fire which will eventually lead to a personal war with Oppi. It's not the physics that are dangerous, it's the fact that they are in the hands of beings who make emotional decisions to destroy each other, often based on complete misunderstandings.

[AA-qbni]

The final scene is honestly one of the greatest endings I've ever seen. Experiencing that scene in the cinema is something else 😭🙌

[kylecarter]

The black and white isnt about objective reality. Its very much the subjective reality of Strauss. The color scenes tell the subjective story of Oppenheimer. Neither are objective reality. Both are told from the viewpoints of their protaganist.

[adityamadhur]

Thank you so much for simplifying it!
It helped me in understanding the movie completely!

[jesuslikesdualswords]

Can we talk about the acting though, Cillian, RDJ, and Matt Damon were

[gb]

This was a great review an explanation of the film. Thank you.

[maddy]

What an exceptional review of the movie, Oppenheimer. Thank you.

[Mav...]

I enjoyed the film. I was anxious to see the difference between 'Oppenheimer and Fat Man Little boy' with Paul Newman. I saw it in an IMax theatre and I guess my eye is not that sharp because I saw no difference in the quality of the film and any other film. I'm older and it was too loud for me. The dialogue was muffled in some scenes, especially early on with Oppie and his wife and lover. At home I would certainly que up close captioning. - I wish the scene when Strauss was embarrassed by Oppie was made a little clearer. Robert Downey Jr was award nomination for sure. Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer and acting was spot on. - Oppenheimer, what a intellectually gifted man.

[aldrichuyliong]

"You think the Japanese care about who created the bomb? They care about who dropped it. That's me."

"Never let this crybaby back in here".

[lindatt]

At the point in the movie when the test bomb went off I just started sobbing. Emotionally I felt the same in 2004 standing at the empty site of the twin towers. Mass destruction of these magnitudes is so wrong.😢

[adehermawan]

BIG THANKS, GREAT EXPLANATION. I want to watch the movie again. I have unexplained feelings after watching this. This movie is a masterpiece. Greet From Indonesia.

[melissamorton]

Just saw Oppenheimer today 😊 I'm from New Mexico so I've always been interested in him. Great movie!

[vibingcats]

I might be getting this wrong but once we finally heard the conversation between Oppenheimer and Einstein that took place at the beginning of the film and heard them discuss the intricate details of how the atomic bomb works (whether it would be a continuous reaction or not) and the calculations used, that means he already had all the mathematics done and figured out already before the Manhattan project even began?

[michaeladkins]

I liked the "Major League" callback when the oversized floral display is inbetween two charactors at odds, get slightly moved and then removed

[SaturnBurnerAccount]

I enjoyed this movie but the time skipping made it so confusing I was convinced he loved three women at the same time and Strauss's vendetta didn't make sense until the end

[TheNedH]

The hearing over Oppenheimer's security clearance is an echo of the way that Congress carried out the anti-Communist hearings of the late 40s and 50s. Because the hearings weren't trials, per se, the rules and precedents of evidence and discovery did not need to be observed. Further, when people refused to testify to Congress by citing the 5th Amendment, they were punished because the 5th Amendment only applies in courtroom proceedings. This was a legal 'catch-22' that was built into the process from the get-go. And it is clear in the movie that Strauss and his minions use these same paradoxes to entrap Oppenheimer in their hearing. Of course, the irony comes when Strauss himself is facing a congressional hearing in which legal precedents regarding testimony are also not applicable. Strauss repeatedly asks whom will be testifying for or against him and asks to see what evidence they will submit, but he is told that this is not a legal proceeding. Just a quick note: at one point you say that Oppenheimer and Kitty carry out their affair in "both the United States and New Mexico", but it should be pointed out that New Mexico is in in fact a U.S. State.

[rampartranger]

I can be such a cynic, but for the most part I thought this was an excellent film. Acting was superb as well as the camera work. I am an old guy in my eighth decade of life, living in the Southwest, so I did appreciate the attention to detail of the period and place. I was born far enough back that I do remember the McCarthyism and did find the heavy focus on those abuses a bit overwrought. One has to remember the times and the fears resulting from the Communist movement ascendant at the time, and rivaling Naziism in terms of the bloody body-count of the slaughtered. Someday a good movie will be made of the Holodomor, but I doubt it can be done before I die. It would violate Hollywood’s shallow romantic attachment to the dreamy comrades of Joseph Stalin.