Episode 24: Oppenheimer, Cinema of the Atomic Age and the Cinematic Output of Christopher Nolan

A hefty one this week as Ben and Danny discuss cinema of the atomic age, and the now iconic cinematic monsters were emblematic of an omnipresent anxiety that Nolan himself channels in his latest epic. We then chat about the man himself; his presence in mainstream cinema, and question how his legacy will be viewed in the years to come. We then deep dive into the thematic weight of the aforementioned epic, analysing it in the context of the atomic anxieties of then and now and discuss how the subject matter vindicates the stylistic choices that make him so critically divisive.