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Interesting Christopher Nolan Movie. It seemed to be one of those in which he tried to tell his story around the usual guard rails of Hollywood propaganda, bullshit, and fake history. Also, with Covid and the death of Hollywood creating desperate A-Listers, the movie was a dog pile of brand name actors wedged into every nook and cranny. This observable schizoid story telling style seems to be more common in the age of stilted scripts and political correctness, where the policorrect cant is given its obligatory dramaturgy like a badly digested, gassy meal, while the story teller hopes the REAL movie can be discerned between the cracks of the script.

The two bookends of the movie seem to tell the intended story. The earliest bookend in the movie is the young Oppenheimer cooly attempting to kill one of his physicist instructors. He has a syringe, draws from an ampule of potassium cyanide, and injects it into an apple on the instructor’s desk without emotion or hesitation. An unwary Neils Bohr wanders in and grabs the apple, but not being the intended target, Oppenheimer slaps it down from him and says “worm hole”(physics joke?).

The early part of the movie is kind a frenzied edit of Oppenheimer’s early life amongst the academic KommieKunts, with some hallucinatory imagery intended to show the process of his physics imagination, in order to concentrate later on the bigga badda bomb part and get to the withdrawal of his security clearance after WWII.

The second bookend is the reveal that in an early conversation with Einstein, not shown until the end of the movie, the younger Oppenheimer states that he doesn’t care if a nuclear bomb causes runaway ignition of the entire atmosphere and destruction all life on the planet.

There is also the intermediate implication that Oppenheimer may have murdered, or endorsed the murder, of his Communist honey trap on again off again mistress Jean Tatlock. Of course, she isn’t dead before he has one last sex fling with her and they gaze at each other nude while sitting in chairs in a hotel in San Francisco while she shit tests him with her neurosis and neediness. Although the forensic conclusion was suicide by self drowning, the movie shows a gloved hand holding her under the water. She was going off the rails in her intended function into blabbermouthy, and had to be disposed of?

So, the real story seems to be that Oppenheimer was an ascetic, but louche, atomic pyromaniac, likely trained early in spy tradecraft and working as a double/triple agent the whole time (Bolsheviks/Zionists?).

He seduced the wives of his colleagues (seduction is one of the taught skills of tradecraft) and steals one of them to marry: a rich Communist heiress (portrayed as loyal but chronically drunk and upset around her life and also mistrusting of her husband). Did the Oppenheimer character murder or direct murder to gain ascendancy and move chess pieces out of the way? Seems possible. Was he a lone quantum physics genius on the UC Berkeley faculty? He probably had a good bit of technical assist/consultations from his spy masters and their resources, as well as colleagues.

His dead drops may have been mistress Tatlock and other Communists, including his brother and friends, and the movie showed him leaving Los Alamos nuclear campus on horse back for his customary lone wanderings in the back country of Sandia Mountains (dead drops? conversations with aliens?). He fell into bed with mistress Tatlock in the movie the first night they met. It seems one was managing the other, and it seems ultimately Oppenheimer was managing Tatlock (she became an MD at Stanford, then psychiatrist, good access to confidential clients).

There is another Rosetta Stone scene in which Tatlock opens a book of Sanskrit and asks what it was (Bhagavad Gita was all the rage amongst the esoteric physicists) and points to a phrase like it was the Queen of Diamonds in “Manchurian Candidate”, and it was the oft quoted ‘destroyer of worlds’ phrase. Implied was that they both knew the esoterica of current physics and the Sanskrit as well. The existence of the bomb was pre-knowledge that merely had to be manifested again, not the baleful warning of dread as generally portrayed, but a goal and a directorate.

It seems that Los Alamos was used as a Western Russian R&D campus on the dime of the USA, with the security protocols trumped by the nominal urgency of developing the nuclear weapons and forced enlistment of the ivory tower physicists. Richard Feynman bragged in his biography about being able to crawl under a fence and come and go at Los Alamos for R&R, getting laid or drunk or whatever. He seemed only to be portrayed by a guy waving bongos at the success of Trinity in the movie. Nonetheless, in spite of nominal security, the place leaked like a sieve due to noncompliance and split loyalties amongst the scientists. Truman was portrayed as ignorantly and arrogantly believing that the Russians would never achieve an atomic weapon.

The movie as dramaturgy emphasized the Salieri soap opera between the politician Lewis Strauss and Oppenheimer portraying Strauss through jealousy and hurt feelings throwing Oppenheimer under the bus after WWII. It seems, however, that nobody who got close to Oppenheimer ultimately trusted him and his various role playing attributes. The physicist Teller (who was Mr. H-bomb), mistrusted Oppenheimer even as he continued to work with him and never understood why Oppenheimer tried to stall and misdirect the development of the hydrogen bomb. Teller seems ultimately to understand that Oppenheimer wasn’t the citizen scientist, virtue signaling conscience, he tried to convey.

In spite of the movie’s shifting perspectives, it did seem that the ‘real story’ was that of Oppenheimer as a complex and calculating spy practicing tradecraft infiltration. His opposition to nuclear development and the hydrogen bomb after WWII was characterized as an act of conscience whereas it was merely an act, probably to stall Western progress while the Soviet Union caught up and surpassed. Oppenheimer was cold and didn’t really give a shit about mass murdering, may have enjoyed the concept as an ascetic misanthrope. He was more concerned with the magic act of spy crafts.

In the movie, there is a nod given to Hitler foolishly rejecting ‘Jewish physics’. However, the Nazis didn’t necessarily reject the quantum energy physics. They believed it wasn’t the ultimate answer, and they had moved on (through some kind of inchoate revelations, possibly from the Jesuits and the Vatican and revealed histories of ancient, high technology civilizations wiped out) to concentrate on torsion physics, scalar energy, zero point energy, anti-gravity, inter dimensional physics etc. etc. which was potentially more powerful than the general and special relativity/quantum physics, in spite of the bigga badda bombs.

To this day, nominal academic ‘physics’ hasn’t progressed from the 1920’s because the ‘real physics’ is kept secret. The old theories of relativity and quantum mechanics have become big ‘stalls’ as inviolate dead ends vs. the secret projects that have been going on ever since.
The Nazis implied they were ‘granted’ their technology insights, but by whom, exactly? It could be that historically all of the ‘discoveries’ of scientists and mathematicians were grants from the inchoate sources and were ‘re-discoveries’ at critical junctures rather than novel brainstorms. Historical accounts point to ancient high tech destroyed civilizations on Earth with the special knowledges preserved and re-distributed in accordance with the enlightenment of revived industrial civilization. The great deserts of earth could be scars of previous wars and cataclysms, as described in the Sanskrit texts.

“These pathbreaking physicists who laid the foundation stones for quantum mechanics - Schrödinger’s equation to Heisenberg’s matrix calculus, Bohr’s interpretation of quantum mechanics, and so forth - were great admirers and interpreters of Vedic literature. The confrontation between modern quantum physics and ancient Indian philosophy is forcing us to rethink many long-held conclusions concerning matter and consciousness.”