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We’re just about a month away from the release of Oppenheimer, and given that it’s famously releasing on the same day as Barbie, Christopher Nolan and the Universal Pictures marketing machine are doing everything in their power to drum up hype for the film.
During a recent in-depth interview with Wired, for example, Nolan compared the ending of Oppenheimer to the famed ending of his 2010 sci-fi film Inception.
I mean, the end of Inception, it’s exactly that. There is a nihilistic view of that ending, right? But also, he’s moved on and is with his kids. The ambiguity is not an emotional ambiguity. It’s an intellectual one for the audience. It’s funny, I think there is an interesting relationship between the endings of Inception and Oppenheimer to be explored. Oppenheimer‘s got a complicated ending. Complicated feelings. [via Wired]
It’ll certainly be interesting to see how Nolan crafts a “complicated ending” to a story that seems so cut-and-dry. Then again, if anyone can pull it off, it’s Nolan.
Here is the official synopsis for Oppenheimer, via Universal Pictures:
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
In addition to Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, referred to as the “father of the atomic bomb”, Oppenheimer stars Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Modine, and more. The film will hit movie theaters in the United States on Friday, July 21.