Where to see Oppenheimer on TV and streaming: plot, duration

After i 7 Oscarsthe box office record (score with Barbie), the birth of a word/phenomenon (Barbenheimer), the controversies in Japan (see video above), arrives on TV Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan. The film, 180 minutes longis visible at 9.15pm on Sky Cinema Uno and at 9.45pm also on Sky Cinema Collection. In streaming on NOW, is available on demand. The film will also be available on demand in 4K on Sky.

Inspired by biography Oppenheimer – Triumph and fall of the inventor of the atomic bomb by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (ed. Garzanti). Pulitzer Prize.

Cambridge University, 1926. J. Robert Oppenheimer (amazing Cillian Murphy) is a young physics student, obsessed with lectures by Professor Niels Bohr (Kenneth Branagh). So obsessed that, out of spite towards another teacher who almost made him miss a Bohr lesson, he makes an act that could be fatal. It is the first suggestion of possibility of the irreparable associated with an idea of ​​the scientist…

Many years later, in 1954we find Oppenheimer tired, grey, aged and under process. He must defend himself against accusations of communism by his former employer, Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.), head of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Between flashback And flashforwardcolor and black and white, the rise, the torments and the “fall” of physicist who invented the atomic bomb. From the first inventions, to the direction of the Los Alamos laboratory, in New Mexico, for the US army, where he tested the bomb…

Oppenheimer is an American citizen, but reported for anti-American activities. He is Jewish but not observant. Husband in love with Kitty (Emily Blunt), yet faithless (among the lovers there is Jean Tatlock-Florence Pugh)… In the gallery below all the real protagonists of the true story.

The film opens on Oppenheimer as a young Cambridge student who watches as he hypnotizes him repetitive drippingmonotonous and symmetrically perfect of some rain drops that generate concentric circles in a puddle. Suddenly, in stark contrast to the water, we witness a tongues of fire that flood the screen and our gaze. Shots of fire only (of the bomb? Of sun?).

In the exergue, among flames and lapilli, the caption-phrase emerges: «Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man…». We then find the graying scientist, a modern Prometheus with a face marked by wrinkles.

Time – in a three-hour cinematic story – has a key role to be able to get closer to a brilliant mind. A few seconds seem to give theillusion of eternity, a few minutes can have the epic breath of hours. A few hours are not enough to contain a life. Likewise, the scientist at center stage has the feeling of omnipotence. Then fragility extreme, torment, defeat.

Oppenheimer is filmed in 70mm film without digital effects, but with rartisanal constructions old schoolmodels and special effects “like in the past”.

Christopher Nolan (Inception, Dunkirk) on his first biopic achieves a sort of antithesis of biopic. Of the biopic he only has theaccuracy of real details and some narrative “tics” (the procedural sequences). For the rest the author seems to be looking above all for one “mental photography” of the character at the center of the scene. The fresco of one gigantic and elusive personality. Dream fragments, splinters of conscience (tormented, wounded, elusive), suggestions à la Terence Malick (the evocativeness of the four elements, the repetition of the explosion as if suspended in a sense of loops eternal).

The author of The dark Knight captures – without too much emphasis – the multidimensionality and complexity of the character.

He manages to frame their ideas, obsessions, passion for discovery. Then the defeatthe awareness of be responsible for the unspeakable tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki… Listen to the real Robert Oppenheimer: here’s what he thought of “his creature”.

Oppenheimer is the most awarded film of 2023/24. Here are all the awards that Nolan’s 12th film has won:

• 7 Oscars (Best film, director, leading actor, supporting actor, editing, cinematography, soundtrack)
• 5 Golden Globes (drama, director, dramatic actor, supporting actor, soundtrack)
• 7 BAFTA (film, director, leading actor, supporting actor, soundtrack, cinematography, editing)
• 1 Grammy (soundtrack)
• 4 Critics Choice Movie Awards (Film, director, supporting actor, ensemble cast)
• National Board of Review: among the 10 best films of the year
• 2 New York Film Critics Circle Awards (direction, cinematography)
• 3 Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association (director, lead actor, supporting actor)
• 2 Saturn Award (thriller film, supporting actor)
• 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards (lead actor, supporting actor, cast)
• 1 Directors Guild of America Award (directing)

We advise you to catch up – on Sky Documentaries and Now TV – the recent docufilm To End All Wars: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb by Christopher Cassel (2023). The documentary, like Nolan’s film, is inspired by the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Triumph and fall of the inventor of the atomic bomb by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (ed. Garzanti).

On the “bomb” theme Two other masterpieces also need to be revisited. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) by Stanley Kubrick with Peter Sellers (available for purchase or rental on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Rakuten TV, Chili, Microsoft Store). AND Dreams (1990) by Akira Kurosawa (on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play).