Some moviegoers in India are upset about the way Oppenheimer introduces that famous quote
that some members of the Hindu community in India are upset about just how the quote is first introduced.In what is most likely the very first instance of “sexposition” in a Nolan movie, Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer first says the line while having sex with Florence Pugh’s Jean Tatlock.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a vocal group on social media is not particularly thrilled about seeing someone read from a holy text during a sex scene, with Indian journalist Uday Mahurkar calling it a “direct assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus” in an open letter addressed to Nolan.
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