Amidst all the male colleagues and rivals that mythify Oppenheimer and enable his self-importance, making him Vishnu and Prometheus, it's very striking to me that two of the central thesis of this movie are plainly stated by women. First with Jean's character, saying:
You have everyone convinced that you're more complicated than you actually are.
—Jean Tatlock
A good deal of this movie, as with any biopic, is the mythification of its subject and their role in history. There are…