Are Oppenheimer’s Oscars going back to the bad old “Daddy Movie” days?

aAfter a landslide win of seven awards at the Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan’s blistering three-hour drama has been cemented as the best picture of this year’s awards season, beating out rivals such as the Leonard Bernstein biopic. Artist, band leader A colorful puppet-based comedy Barbie. There is no doubt now that it is already 2024 OppenheimerOverall, the film deserves to win. It’s a smart, clever, and beautifully crafted work – a career high for Nolan and his lead Cillian Murphy, who plays atomic bomb maker J. Robert Oppenheimer. However, there is something about the idea Oppenheimer A win that seems strange facing backwards.

OppenheimerAs the argument goes, it’s a film for men. Perhaps intensified by its strange and ubiquitous juxtaposition with female leadership BarbieNolan’s filmography has been widely examined through the lens of gender. No matter how reductive this assertion may be—that Nolan’s film is simply a “boys’ movie”—it’s hard to deny that there is a degree of truth to it. The few female roles that Oppenheimer These features aren’t at the forefront: Emily Blunt’s Kitty Oppenheimer never feels three-dimensional, and Florence Pugh makes the most of her scant screen time as “the other woman” Jean Tatlock. Meanwhile, the list of important male characters is deep and illustrious. Murphy faces a cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Jason Clarke, David Krumholtz, Rami Malek, Matthew Modine, Gary Oldman, and Kenneth Branagh. Match this with OppenheimerIt’s a stereotypically masculine theme – bombs and the evils of war – and it’s easy to see why the film has been labeled the quintessential ‘dad movie’.