Godzilla Minus One Oppenheimer

Godzilla, as seen in this year’s Godzilla Minus One, measures 50.1 meters, or just over 164 feet. That’s roughly the same height as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Because of Barbenheimer, it can be difficult to remember Oppenheimer is rooted in historical events and not pop culture, especially since so much of the editing in Christopher Nolan’s film suggests his source material wasn’t so much the tome American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer but Christopher Moore’s graphic novel The Watchmen.

Seriously, is this layout from Moore’s graphic novel not anything if not a storyboard for Nolan’s billion dollar film that contorts time and space and memory through its surgical editing?

This probably comes off as snark, but it’s not, at least it’s not one percent snark. Influence is always a river with many tributaries. Sometimes the artist is aware. Sometimes not. Streams of consciousness converge. Oppenheimer is a film about abuses in power. These abuses take place in physics. Do we as humans have the right to subvert the stability of the atom? These abuses take place in politics. Do we as Americans have the right to cordon off certain political ideologies and…