RE: Oppenheimer (2023): best film of the year so far? | ¿la mejor película del año hasta ahora?
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This film is all about whitewashing history to suit an establishment narrative. This film fails to mention war crimes committed by the US military. The Hispanos Indigenous people who lived in the bomb test site area were evicted from their land for the bomb to be tested in New Mexico. These farmers who had lived in the area, where the bomb was tested for many generations, were given 24 hours to leave their land and given minimal compensation. The army went around killing the farmers livestock. Destitute, many of the famers went to work at Los Alamos nuclear labs where they were paid poverty wages only to be exposed to toxic radioactive chemicals and as a result died in large numbers. Meanwhile, white workers were given protective suits when near toxic nuclear chemicals. Never mind the fact that many people died as a result of radioactive poisoning in the decades after the bomb tests.
Oppenheimer and his test are war criminals who developed a weapon of mass destruction which killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese people. The Japanese were on the verge of surrender yet the US dropped the bomb to test its effects.
Yet more racist crap rewriting history from Hollywood.
I don't think is all about whitewashing in this movie. Of course there are many things that it doesn't tell but let's jump to the fact that this a book-based partial version of the story of a man (Oppenheimer). However, there are many voices in the movie and many scenes that denunciate those crimes, the cruelty of how absurd it was to deploy that power over an almost defeated people (that is shown in the film) and other few things you mention.
I have no doubt there are many important things that were left outside the script but if they had included all of them it would be a different movie and not this one.
Thank you for sharing your point of view.