[mlewis78]

Wednesday afternoon I saw Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, director) at a theater. I was the only person in the viewing room. Good movie. I'd just finished reading the book American Prometheus the day before.

If I hadn't read the book I wouldn't have understood the scenes of the hearings for Lewis Strauss's confirmation (or not confirmed, as it turned out) as commerce secretary in 1959. They kept changing between that scene and the 1954 hearings where Oppenheimer lost his security clearance, and earlier scenes in Oppenheimer's life.

The soundtrack music was too loud (a lot of people disagree with me about that, I think), but at least it didn't drown out the dialogue. It competed with it though.

This was my first time at a movie theater since 2019.