Insightful review of Oppenheimer by @cgseife "it’s a tired old trope in movies about scientists, particularly physicists, and mathematicians: that they give up a piece of themselves—their relationships, their sanity, even their humanity—for their transcendent understanding" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-destroyer-of-worlds-and-movie-scripts/
@laurahelmuth @cgseife Thanks for sharing this. I have degrees in physics and engineering (though not history), and I don't share this author's criticism. He seems to have wanted more or different science included in #Oppenheimer. This comes across as a too nitpicky for me. Christopher Nolan made choices about what to include, and the result tells a marvelous story.
@electrafish @laurahelmuth @cgseife groups feeling underrepresented or misrepresented in #oppenheimer :
Scientists, Latinos, women, Japanese. It’s already a three hour movie, Nolan would need another three hours for each of the groups to feel satisfied.
