Seeing Oppenheimer in IMAX actually adds a layer of meaning to the movie.
The showstopper, so to speak, is the Trinity explosion itself, but the movie is dotted with arresting images all along, some of which remain abstract or ambiguous until the closing moments: the ripples of raindrops in a pond evolve into the blast radii of nuclear detonations covering the globe; an ethereal vision of clouds that we later realize are the ghostly trails of missile launches.
The movie never shows us the results of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—Oppenheimer didn’t even know that the bomb had been dropped until he heard Truman announce it on the radio the following day—but we feel them anyway, as the martial pounding of feet on gym risers during a victory rally in a basketball gym morphs briefly but unmistakably into the piercing shrieks of the dead. For the movie to work best, that moment has to have an impact as profound as the blast itself.
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