Ever since Oppenheimer came out, there’s been a lot of debate around the fact that it doesn’t depict the actual bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, despite being set in the context of the creation and development of the weapon that would lay waste to them, the atomic bomb. That’s for good reason, of course: the movie is about J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) himself, with the script even written in first person. So, as Oppenheimer wasn’t present at the bombings, it makes no sense to show them, we only get his reaction and interpretation of the facts. But there’s a particular moment and line that’s way more shocking than any depiction of the bombings could ever be, were they in the movie.
