Fannish 50 #25: Oppenheimer

I just saw Oppenheimer today and I already know that I've got to go back and see it again. I was reluctant at first, I mean it's a 3 hour movie with a lot of guys in suits sitting around talking. But I trusted Christopher Nolan to something unusual with the story and he defintely did, creating a film that's visually engaging, weaving timelines together deftly in a way that Nolan loves to do.

There are a few rare times where my former career as an archivist intersects with fannish things, but this afternoon was one of them. I spent fifteen years professionally engaged with WWII, the Cold War, and national security issues as an archivist at the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Watching Oppenheimer today made be wish I still lived near my old job. I know where to find thousands of pages of documents, the transcripts of the hearings, and so much more all related to J. Robert Oppenheimer. I love history, I love research, and I love digging into folders of historical documents.

But I'll for going to see the movie again and maybe, just maybe, vidding it in the future.