Oppenheimer’s ‘Hollywood Ending’
Will Christopher Nolan’s movie take the kind of hardheaded look at the father of the A-bomb that Secretary Granholm failed to take?
Will the movie “Oppenheimer,” a likely blockbuster that filmmaker Christopher Nolan is due to release in July, confront squarely the unsettling evidence — glossed over in Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s recent move to rehabilitate the physicist’s reputation — that the “Father of the A-bomb” was a member of the Communist Party?
Major studios bid for the film, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning, empathetic biography of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is lionized in the film and called “the most important man who ever lived.” Yet the government deemed Oppenheimer a security risk— thus injuring his reputation, which the Energy department just moved to restore.
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