Why does everyone hate this movie? Am I missing something?
Seriously, other than the over-explained and overshot ending, I had a really really fun time with this.
A little rough around the edges but my god does it deliver on a lot of things. Enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. My dad was the biggest fan of Blackberry so by proxy I'm kinda sad about their downfall even though I've never owned one.
Personally, I didn't leave the movie with any impact at all. Not in the physical sense of the bomb, nor in the mental sense of Oppie's fear/regret of it.
Despite being 3 hours long, we barely actually spend any time with Oppenheimer himself, which just felt weird since the movie aims to be a character study. Other than the speech scene, which was too short and ended before I started to get a sense of his mindframe, I can't think…
Usually when I watch a movie and I can't stop thinking about it, it's because I'm in love with it. But I wasn't in love with Vertigo. Yet, I couldn't stop thinking about it. It all felt so...unreal. And now I've rewatched it within 24 hours already. I had to get it off my mind. I still don't know how to describe what I feel. I get what the movie is about, the relationships, the obsession, the use of colour,…