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Oppenheimer is the true story of J Robert Oppenheimer, played amazingly by Cillian Murphy, who became known as "the father of the atomic bomb".  This 3 hour long biographical drama follows Oppenheimer's life, from a young age, when he is appointed to head the Manhattan Project.   The story tracks Oppenheimer through his life,  starting in the 1920s  and gives us insight to his  personal and professional milestones, including his work on the bomb, the controversies that surrounded him, the anti-Communist attacks that tried to ruined him, as well as the friendships and romances that both helped him through his life but also had a negative effect on him.. We learn about his affair with Jean Tatlock, played perfectly by Florence Pugh and about his marriage to Kitty Harrison, played on spot by Emily Blunt, , who accompanies him to Los Alamos, and with whom he had two children.   Oppenheimer is a brilliant, intense movie that brings us into the  life of the American theoretical physicist who helped research and develop the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II — a destructive and horrible act that destroyed so many lives and has many implications and ethical issues to this day.