OPPENHEIMER (2023) Ending Explained, The Real Life Story & Movie Spoiler Review. We review, recap and explain Oppenheimer and go over the historical figures real life story. This includes major spoilers for the movie and a chronological timeline of how things happened.

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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down Oppenheimer.

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The new Christopher Nolan biopic explores the history behind the creation of the atomic bomb and a figure who's arguably one of the most important people to ever walk the earth.

Throughout this video we're gonna be discussing the real life story behind the figure, what happens at the end of the movie and also the aftermath of it. Heavy Spoilers ahead so if you're wanting to go into the film without having anything ruined then I highly recommend that you turn off now. Please hit the thumbs up button and make sure you subscribe to the channel if you wanna see more videos like this.

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So Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22nd in 1904.

Credited as being the father of the atomic bomb Oppenheimer is seen as a man who ended wars but in turn gave us the power to destroy ourselves completely.

Often we get quotes attributed to a man and Oppenheimer arguably has one of the most famous of all time.

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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers Show, I'm your host Paul and in this video we're breaking down Oppenheimer.

The new Christopher Nolan biopic explores the history behind the creation of the atomic bomb and a figure who's arguably 1 of the most important people to ever walk the earth.

Throughout this video we're gonna be discussing the real life story behind him, what happens at the end of the movie and also the aftermath of the entire thing.

Heavy spoilers ahead so if you're wanting to go into the film without having anything ruined then I highly recommend that you turn off now.

Please hit the thumbs up button and make sure you subscribe to the channel if you wanna see more videos like this.

Either way, huge thank you for clicking this, now let's get into Oppenheimer.

Sergillius Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22nd, 1904.

Credited as being the father of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer is seen as a man who ended wars but in turn gave us the power to destroy ourselves completely.

Often we get quotes attributed to great men and Oppenheimer arguably has 1 of the most famous of all time.

This was uttered as he watched his creation light up the sky and though it's attributed to him, it actually pulls from Hindu scripture.

The verse originally states, The Supreme Lord said, Time I am, the great destroyer of worlds, and I have come here to destroy all people.

Now this has been changed slightly in the translation but it can still be brought across to what the scientists did.

Oppenheimer somewhat adopted this to usher in the successful testing of a nuclear weapon and the context of it carries a lot with it.

This is clearly a man showing remorse and regret about the damage that his seemingly great achievement could now bring.

Before the film's release I saw 1 of the best written reviews for a movie that I'd ever seen.

Discussing the film, Darren Mooney said...

It's about the gulf between theory and practice, intention and result, the folly of ego and the fear that any effort to understand the forces governing this chaotic world in which we live in unleashes madness.

It's an incredible way to describe the movie and I think it really gets to what it's trying to drive home.

Now for the next part of the video I want to discuss the real life figure's life and some of the techniques used to explore Pennheimers history.

Nolan stated that the black and white scenes are something that are objectively true whereas the colour ones are somewhat subjective.

Kinda feel like this might even be a nod to Doctor Strange love though the scenes themselves are far from a tongue in cheek comedy.

Jack Howard also discussed the making of process for this and how Nolan actually wrote the script as if it was in first person.

This really allows you to get into the mind of him and makes for an incredible experience on the big screen.

Oppenheimer began his life in New York City to his mother Ella and father Julius.

A non-observant Jewish family, they'd come to the US during 1888 and this was in order to build a life for themselves.

Robert's father had been hired by a textile company upon arriving and after working his way up, he became a wealthy executive.

This allowed the family to move to an upper class area in New York and it gave Robert a great footing to start his life off at.

His younger brother Frank became a psychiatrist and museum founder or as Robert became an incredible chemist.

Graduating in 1921, he then joined Harvard and majored in chemistry before moving to study in Europe.

Now whilst all this was going on, the path to the atomic bomb was also coming into play.

Ironically Oppenheimer as we mentioned before was born in 1904 and this was also a significant year where things fell into place elsewhere.

At Cambridge University, Frederick's study theorised that the energy within atoms could be harnessed into a weapon which would 1 day have the potential to destroy the entire world.

He was scoffed at, but 13 years later the atom was split by Ernest Rutherford and research into this continued at an alarming rate.

Germany was at the forefront of a lot of these scientific discoveries however, their downfall was actually laced within Hitler's bigoted views.

When he gained power during 1933, he actually expelled all of the Jewish scientists who'd been part of the project and a lot of them then fled to the US.

Here they continued their research as part of the Manhattan Project which Oppenheimer would of course come to head up.

Now speaking of Ernest Rutherford, Oppenheimer learned in 1924 that he had been accepted into Christ's College Cambridge.

He contacted Rutherford directly, requesting to work at the Cavendish Laboratory but unfortunately Ernest wasn't too welcoming.

Oppenheimer was seen as someone who was extremely clumsy and thus he had to pass a basic lab course before he was welcomed in.

He did this but he found it extremely boring, with his true passion being in theoretical physics.

Oppenheimer was also pretty disliked there too and this was due to some of his really disturbing behaviour.

He actually poisoned an apple and left it on the desk of a tutor in the hopes that he would then eat this.

However luckily he didn't but Oppenheimer admitted that he immediately regretted doing this.

His parents were alerted by the university and though probation was threatened they did in fact manage to avoid this.

Oppenheimer apparently also tried to strangle his friend with a trunk strap at 1 point and though the guys often painted out in a good light he clearly had his darker side too.

Now whatever the man did at university didn't hold him back and his talent clearly kept opening up doors for him.

Eventually he secured a job at the University of California which is where he had a fateful meeting with Gene Tatlock.

Played by Florence Pugh she becomes a key character in the film and is arguably 1 of the most crucial people in his life.

A member of the communist party it was suspected the pair were politically aligned and this eventually led to the FBI opening up a file on him.

Though he didn't join them, this sowed the seeds for his downfall which we'll talk more about later on in the video.

Even with his politics by 1941 he was selected to take part in the Manhattan Project.

Selecting a site in Los Alamos New Mexico the movie of course brings the creation of their work to life.

It really shows everything that went into it and we get all the intensity behind just how much of a race this was to build the bomb.

I was also at this location that Oppenheimer slipped up and unfortunately this built off the back of what we talked about before.

Oppenheimer was approached to pass his discoveries on to the Soviet Union, which he ended up actually turning down.

However, because he didn't report it to the authorities, this eventually caused problems and lots of mistrust around him.

As we see in the film, he also had an affair with Tatlock despite being married with 2 kids.

This was to a woman named Kitty who in the films played by Emily Blunt.

Tatlock being so close to the communists had the FBI tapping his phone and this was to see if he was in fact selling off secrets.

Later on in 1949 the Soviets managed to make progress on their bomb and they tested it before the US predicted that they'd have the capacity to.

It was believed that someone had been selling them secrets which led to eyes further falling on Oppenheimer.

Earlier on in their lives Tatlock too was questioned and this all came to a head in 1944.

She ended up taking her own life at the age of just 29 and this was after suffering from clinical depression.

But the war itself started drawing close to an end when Hitler took his own life in 1945.

However the Japanese were still all in on it and as a nation they refused to back down.

Thus the developments continued and with the help from British scientists the first bomb detonation took place on July 16th.

Nolan captures this moment incredibly in the film and as I'm sure you know he detonated a real bomb.

This wasn't a nuke obviously but it shows how much effort he put into making this movie.

The guy tried to use as little CGI as possible and though there's computer generated effects they are kept to a minimum.

Also it is a bit weird doing this video and having to give spoiler warnings and stuff because I'm starting to think, is it a spoiler if it's history?

The bomb was suspended from a tower and upon it's detonation it destroyed 4, 800 feet.

The tower itself was instantly reduced to atoms and even the sand surrounding it was instantly turned to glass.

Now because of this The project was seen as a success but what came next of course changed the world.

Humanity now had a weapon that almost matched the power of God and it's destructive force was nothing like the world had ever seen.

Coming in at 18.6 kilotons, this was equivalent to every single bomb dropped on London throughout the entire blitz.

After this point the plans shifted to what would happen in Japan and how the country was going to win the war.

Japan was actually offered the chance to surrender with them being warned that dire consequences would occur if they refused to.

Leaflets were dropped warning citizens that the bomb was coming and they were told that they had to escape.

That didn't happen though and as mentioned earlier, the country refused to give up.

The bomb was built and it was loaded onto the Enola Gay, carrying the message, Greetings to the Emperor.

It was dropped on August 6th 1945 and as we know the world would never be the same again.

The bomb instantly killed 60, 000 people and a survivor of it recently spoke to the Today Show about what they witnessed.

There was a lot of commotion and there was people saying that there's a the 29 coming towards the Hiroshima.

American Howard kakita was 7 years old living with his grandparents near Hiroshima's ground 0.

My brother and I his name is Kenny my older brother and I we climbed on top of the roof to watch the vapor trail and fortunately my grandmother in much smaller than she told us to get off the roof.

I think you're the boom I was not doubt and the thing is when I came to which is I'm sure number of minutes later structure was on top of me.

somehow Howard his brother and grandmother survived.

This is not ordinary bomb but was something much bigger everything was burning.

They saw things no person should witness.

There are already a number of people that were dead along the roadside.

People were burned, suffering and begging for a drink of water.

Some of the injuries were so severe that, for example, people with burns, their skins would be dripping from their bodies and some of the people actually had broken limbs, you know, protruding.

When we came back after the surrender, we came back to the same area and the whole city was completely flat.

Radiation of course filled the air and many people lost their hair with some even dying of cancer shortly after.

In total the bombings said to have led to the deaths of 130, 000 people though due to all those being instantly disintegrated, the true number will never be known.

Obviously looking back there's a lot of debate over whether this was the right thing to do as many of the people killed weren't involved in the war per se.

They were just part of the nation and with many of the victims being children A lot of people feel it was an extremely tragic event.

Even the pilot of the plane's logbook had him feeling remorseful with him questioning how many people that he just helped to kill.

This is something the film focuses on too, but the argument in favor of it is that it helped end the war.

However, there would be more bloodshed to come, and the Japanese government still wouldn't surrender.

They were lost in confusion over what had just happened, as they were just unable to communicate with the military radio towers and had no idea what was going on.

They sent someone out to survey the area and report back what they saw and all this person could see was a giant smoke cloud in the sky.

Upon returning, the leader surmised that not many bombs like this could be quickly developed and thus they decided to endure and continue the war.

A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki just 3 days later and eventually the Japanese gave up and decided to surrender.

Oppenheimer left Los Alamos in October 1945 with an intense feeling of guilt which he expressed to President Truman.

Meeting him in the Oval Office he said he had blood on his hands which Truman remarked would come off in the wash.

Truman would later state that he was a crybaby scientist and that he didn't ever want to see him in his office again.

Oppenheimer refused to support a hydrogen bomb project and this ended up angering the officials out in Washington.

In 1945 Oppenheimer was called on to explain his communist affiliations and this was after years of suspicions fuelled by Louis Strauss.

Played by Robert Downey Jr, the real life figure carried the same grudge that we see in the film.

Humiliated in front of congress years prior he'd harboured a grudge against him and eventually this led to Oppenheimer's ousting.

These are all things which the film beautifully demonstrates since Strauss becomes the antagonist to Oppenheimer that wants to ruin his career.

Believing he was a soviet spy it proved to be his undoing and he was shortly stripped of his clearance and deemed a security risk.

These scenes are laced throughout the film and they build towards the ending which we'll talk about in just a bit.

Now in a closed room hearing that lasted 4 weeks he was instructed to give detail of all his personal affairs.

His friends turned against him and he found himself an outcast even though in the years following, bias of the hearings came out.

They clearly showed that Oppenheimer was loyal to the US but refusing to continue building weapons had people turn against him.

Joe Biden's administration actually formally reversed the decision recently which in the end has exonerated Oppenheimer.

At the time there was uproar too with Einstein calling it a conspiracy and Wernher von Braun saying that in England he would have been given a knighthood.

In the aftermath of this Oppenheimer actually rallied against the use of nuclear weapons and stated that you can't really target specific individuals and thus civilians will always be caught in the blast.

He also believed that there'd be an arm race specifically with the Soviets and as we know, we ended up getting the Cold War.

However things changed with the altering of administrations and JFK was far more welcoming to him than what had come before.

He offered him a retrial but Oppenheimer declined however a little over a week after JFK's assassination he accepted an award from President Lyndon.

This announced all his achievements in physics and it was somewhat an olive branch directly from the government.

Now this somewhat plays into the ending of the film and in case you're watching this without seeing it, The final scene has to do with the conversation he has with Einstein.

Throughout the movie we get a tease towards it and earlier Strauss witnessed Oppenheimer and Einstein talking.

Einstein leaves the conversation and Lewis tries to talk to him but the scientist just walks right by without even giving him a glance.

They cut around it and at points you're wondering exactly what it is that Einstein said.

In the final scene we get to check out this conversation in full and hear for ourselves all the words exchanged.

Einstein said that he'd be regarded highly by the government and that 1 day they would end up honouring him.

However he said they'd be doing it for themselves rather than for him and all in all it was just a big pat on their own backs.

While this is going on we see him receiving his award surrounded by those that gave the negative testimonies.

Now at it's most basic level it's a comment on how the government and scientific community used him to win the war.

Because of this he'll now somewhat be shown off like a trophy that they can just parade around.

Even though he'll be given the limelight it will always be self surveying with them not caring about the costs that it actually had on him.

The world will very much chew him up and spit him out which in many ways is what Strauss represents.

Oppenheimer standing up against the hydrogen bomb means that they're an affront to him now and we all know about what he had to go through.

Einstein walks away and he stares into the pond wondering if his actions will 1 day lead to the downfall of humanity.

Recalling a prior conversation he thinks about how triggering the bomb could lead to a chain of events that could potentially destroy all life on earth.

He contemplates whether his actions will inadvertently lead to this and we see an earth covered in nuclear missile impact points painting out a harrowing picture.

This of course has a double meaning as originally the talk was about how building that specific bomb could trigger things to get destroyed across the entire planet in 1 fell swoop.

However Nolan here is dealing with the idea of escalation.

It's a theme he's tackled before and at the end of Batman Begins we had Gordon talking to Batman about this.

If they get knives their enemies will get guns and if they get guns their enemies will get armor piercing rounds.

The race won't stop and it'll be a constant struggle to stay 1 step ahead of everyone, which will lead to building bigger weapons.

Them triggering that first bomb caused other countries to have to build them too, and the hydrogen bomb is in the end goal, it's simply the next step.

After that, who knows, and there will be a constant upping of weapons across the planet.

Now a hydrogen bomb has never been fired in war, but it has been tested.

Britain did it as well, and it shows how we've even had to up our arms in order to get to a point where we can rival the rest of the world.

It's haunting stuff and on the opposite side of this conversation is Louis Strauss.

Throughout the movie it's shown that not only the congress hearing hurt him but also the paranoia over seeing these 2 talking.

As he approached the pair, Einstein walked away completely ignoring Lewis and this is due to what he represents.

He's very much a figurehead of the government that would turn on Oppenheimer and he likely realises exactly what he is.

Now this paranoia goes on to make Strauss hate Oppenheimer and in turn this leads to his own downfall.

Strauss would later attempt to get a higher position in the government but his meddling and accusations of Oppenheimer would lead to his undoing.

His hand in it eventually was exposed leading to him not getting the job and both the pair's ambitions have left them at a loss.

The film asks if in trying to achieve things we ultimately lead to our own ends and that is something I think is thematic throughout the movie.

Both Strauss and Oppenheimer will race to get ahead but ultimately neither will really come out winning.

All scientific discoveries can potentially come with a dilemma of what it actually costs to achieve the things we want.

Oppenheimer created a bomb that ended up stopping the war but in turn ushered in a new age of humanity.

Now his legacy is still felt in everything today however Oppenheimer didn't live too long after the events of the film.

In 1967 he died due to throat cancer said to be brought on by prolific smoking.

Now we'll always be looked back on as the person who built the bomb that ended the most devastating war humanity has ever faced.

From this point on though warfare changed drastically and instead we headed towards more cold wars fought with espionage and tactics.

The threat of nukes has kept other countries from using them as we have seen first hand how destructive they can be.

Humanity luckily realised how devastating bombs like this are and they rightfully held off using them due to the fear they could be used back.

However in the case of Oppenheimer he of course witnessed what his work did and it's unlikely that he peacefully passed having a warm feeling about his work.

The deaths caused by them still can't be counted and it's clearly a complex issue that people still debate.

That's what Nolan's work brings to life as well and it's an incredible accomplishment on every single level.

As for my thoughts on the film, As I'm sure many of you know I'm a die hard Nolan fan.

I think the guy is an incredible writer, director and lastly editor that manages to tell sometimes incredibly complex stories in a really thrilling way.

I think that's the case here too when he brings together all of his styles and talent to tell us Oppenheimer's story.

It beautifully adapts the American Prometheus book and manages to handle his entire life constantly jumping back and forth between timelines to show how the past affected the future.

Because of this I think some people might get lost, especially when trying to discern what's happening when.

Nolan does separate this a lot of the time with Black and White and they actually built special IMAX cameras for this as by default they were built when colour film was readily available.

For Nolan however he just did it for this movie.

The guys clearly put a ton of effort into this film and he's elevated everything that he could to tell a very complex story.

This themes tackling the cult of personality and how creations get taken out of the hands of the creator and then given new life by people who have more nefarious means.

I also don't think I've ever seen a movie since I last watched 2001 that was so washed with colour, vivid imagery and a score that beats away and drives the action.

Immersion is the word here and the film sucks your eye in especially in IMAX.

Killian Murphy becomes Robert Oppenheimer and I was actually surprised at how many faces there are.

Considering the budget for this is just 100 million I'm guessing all these actors dropped their prices to work with Nolan cause the director is easily 1 of the best alive.

That doesn't mean the movie is perfect and I actually thought the bomb itself was pretty underwhelming.

For that to be the big thing they've hyped up for months now due to them really setting 1 off I was expecting it to be big but I think this is a shot that you could have actually used CGI for.

And I also thought the JFK name drop was, I don't know, kind of like when they say Robin at the end of The Dark Knight Rises.

It felt like a sort of sequel set of thing rather than it being a natural line of dialogue, but I am nitpicking there.

It's just something that stood out to me.

Now The movie also drops a bit after the bomb drops and then you have the hour where it kinda just goes through most of the hearing.

Still brilliant but yeah I think you could have cut things out without losing much of the movie's impact.

Also the I am Death line, I'm never gonna look at that line in the same way again cause of how they have him saying it as he slips it in.

Should be I am Death the destroyer of guilds.

At the end of the day though we'll move on and the impact is what stays with me and that ending especially is something that I'm gonna remember for a while.

The film opens with Raindrop setting a puddle and it's ending with the pond perfectly brings it all full circle.

It shows how an idea can start small and then grow into something big and perfectly tells the dangers of discovery.

Curiosity killed the cat is the moral of this story and it begs the question of whether any weapon like this is worth the cost that comes with it.

Overall I was blown away by the movie, pun not intended and this was an exhilarating experience for the full 3 hours.

I really enjoyed seeing it and though the movie's not for everyone, it's definitely 1 of the best films of the year.

Now obviously I'd love to hear your thoughts on Oppenheimer and also what you took from the movie specifically.

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