Surprising enough rating for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's film about the father of the atomic bomb.
About a month and a half after its release in American theaters, the Motion Picture Association of America has unveiled the official rating of Oppenheimer, the new film by Christopher Nolan. The film – which will debut in the United States on July 21st, while in Italy on August 23rd – has been considered Rated R, and therefore forbidden to children under 17 unaccompanied by an adult. A rather surprising rating, if we consider that the last work of the British director to have had this type of classification was the 2002 thriller Insomnia.
The plot and a new curiosity about Oppenheimer
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the life and fall of the theoretical physicist – believed to be the father of the atomic bomb – as he was forced to face the ramifications and consequences of his scientific discoveries. In the cast Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Jack Quaid, Matt Damon, Gary Oldman, Robert Downey Jr., Gustaf Skarsgård, Rami Malek, Scott Grimes, Dane DeHaan, Michael Angarano, Benny Safdie, David Krumholtz, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Dylan Arnold and Olivia Thirlby.
The Associated Press also revealed that the film of Oppenheimer's IMAX version is over 11 miles (17 kilometers) long and weighs about 272 kilograms. Christopher Nolan has already stated that the best version to appreciate the film in the best way is precisely the one in IMAX 70mm, a format that is only shown in 25 theaters throughout the United States. Nolan reiterated: “You really let the screen disappear. You're getting a 3D-like feel but without the glasses. You have a huge screen and you are filling the audience's peripheral vision. You're immersing viewers into the world of the film."