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"Following the recent release of Wes Anderson’s
Asteroid City, Christopher
Nolan’s
Oppenheimer continues to infuse summer 2023 with atomic energy.
Stylistically, of course, the two couldn’t be more different. What Anderson
shows as a blast outside a diner’s window that doesn’t so much as interrupt the
characters’ coffee, Nolan shapes into a three-hour epic. And as a Ukrainian, I
am grateful for that.
While daily life in the war-time state constantly fluctuates between feeling
like a farce and a Greek tragedy,
Oppenheimer emphasises the real level of
the threat – something I often feel western Europe and the wider world don’t
fully grasp.
Nolan’s Greek tragedy is the world that I live in. Watching
Oppenheimer from
my local cinema in Kharkiv I hope that – to a smaller degree – a global
audience will experience Ukraine’s everyday anxiety too."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
