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Oppenheimer outshines at the Golden Globe Awards

An annual awards ceremony honoring outstanding achievements in the film and television industry, the Golden Globes have released the 2024 winners this January. From the Best Original Song to the Best Director awards, the Golden Globes awards encompass a variety of scales in the sectors of art. With the 2024 Golden Globes awards this year, the film industry has opened another new year of marvelous and astounding films. 


One of the most powerful scene stealers in the awards was ‘Oppenheimer’. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is about a genius physicist Oppenheimer, gathering scientists to carry out a nuclear development project to create a nuclear bomb. Through the movie, we can see Oppenheimer's leadership, cooperation, difficulties during the process, and his inner conflicts and regrets after the success of the project. 


The movie's key focus is on Oppenheimer’s inner contradictions. This point is most expressed in Oppenheimer’s conversation with Einstein in the final scene of the movie, leaving a big impact on audiences. Oppenheimer’s last line, “I believe we did” reveals all the fear and detrimental effects that he realized in the future caused by what he had created. Afterward, he opposes the use of nuclear bombs, even though he is the one who created them. He believed his devotion has become an evil to the world… but we can’t finalize that. 


Oppenheimer is a masterpiece that earned Christopher Nolan the Best Director prize. Unlike other films directed by Nolan, which usually focus on entertaining and adventurous stories, Oppenheimer centers on one figure and his accomplishments: Oppenheimer. 

“Like it or not, J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived,” Nolan considered Oppenheimer the most controversial figure in history and was willing to turn it into a movie. With a not-so-short running time, Nolan portrayed one great controversial human being suffering from psychological conflict and agony, making it worth spending the whole three long hours.


Being the perfect definition of “I’ve won but at what cost?”, Oppenheimer is remembered as both the savior and ruinous man of the world. "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." With the winning of the Golden Globe awards, time is waiting for Oppenheimer to shine in the Academy Awards. 


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