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4/22: Boarding House Beach Clean-Up With The City Of Cape May PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEKSEY MORYAKOV Sposato family Wendy, Ryan, Denise — Cape May Stage Patricia, Jann, Elizabeth — Sturdy Savings Bank Koko, Brian, Amanda Ryan Page 32 EXIT ZERO May 2, 2024
It took me long enough. Honestly, I was so ticked about the Academy Awards fiasco this year where Oppenheimer won so many major Oscars. Did it deserve them? Well, now I’ve finally seen it and studied it to find out. This movie is good… very long, but very good. It’s as complex as the man it’s about. When you create a bomb that’s decided by others to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people in one single event, you cannot have an uncomplicated story. Let that sink in. Two hundred and twenty-six thousand people — families, grandparents, children — killed in a matter of seconds to days. And we were on the good side. I was a little jarred by the back-and-forth of the story — from black-and-white then to color. Where was I? In the 60s? The 50s? It wasn’t always easy to tell. The storyline shows how Oppenheimer, who created the atomic bomb, was tortured by how it was used. The subject of the villain in the movie (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) was relatively The Movie Column By arts columnist Tom Sims flat for me. I was disinterested and underwhelmed by that particular part of the story. But it was a major part of the third act, so I guess I was underwhelmed overall. The film was beautifully shot with superb acting, and it had a compelling story (other than the villain). Note: not a gripping or captivating or poignant story — but compelling. Of course, it was a Hollywood studio, big money production. And that’s why it got so many awards. It wasn’t some scrappy Netflix or outsider Apple TV show. This movie was all Hollywood. That doesn’t make it any better. In fact, it puts it under more scrutiny. When it comes to Christopher Nolan films, give me Dunkirk (2017) over Oppenheimer any day. Dunkirk won three Oscars, none in major categories. It was nominated for many of the biggies. Maybe that’s what should’ve happened here. So many will be convinced that this is his masterpiece. I’m not. Yet Hollywood handed it so much gold. Should’ve spread that around to other movies. But I’m done being a “crybaby.” History proves it was all a despicable act to end WWII. We were on the good side — and it’s important we developed the weapon before the Nazis. I’m not foolish. But there was a better way. You say, “It was a different time.” That lame rationale is overused for so many atrocities that have been so devastating — and still devastating today. But Oppenheimer wasn’t lame— it just didn’t deserve seven Oscars. But I’m moving on. May 2, 2024 EXIT ZERO Page 33
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