The movie shows Oppenheimer averting his eyes from footage of the horrors, which is a meta nod to the film taking the same approach. The movie is not so much a

The movie shows Oppenheimer averting his eyes from footage of the horrors, which is a meta nod to the film taking the same approach. The movie is not so much about the morality of dropping the bomb as it is about the subtler question of what it means to live the sanitized experience of being half a world away from it. If you don't have to face it, what then? Do you still find it troubling, or does it become easy to latch onto projections of how many people might die if you don't use it? Or how much influence you'll lose decades off if you don't intimidate a future superpower now? If you don't see civilians dying do you still approach it with humility, or attend pep rallies where we lament missing the chance to have used it on the Germans?