While waiting on my stylist (who is quite hot AND really good at her job - win/win!!), she was cutting a 50-ish woman's hair. The client was telling my stylist about going to see Oppenheimer and I overheard her describe the movie she just watched a day or two previous.
1. Said she 'thought' is was about the nuclear bomb.
2. Said it was set in the 'late 50s or early 60s'.
3. Couldn't remember the President who was obviously in the movie.
4. Said she really liked the movie.
I haven't seen the movie but someone with even a hint of historical knowledge should know that the a-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. Or, barring that, during World War II. Which means that it was developed under Roosevelt (FDR) and dropped under Truman. I told my stylist and she laughed her butt off. I mean, how could you watch Oppenheimer and not pick up on any of those very basic historical facts? I mean, I'm assuming they talked about being in the midst of WWII sometime in the movie, which as I recall, was NOT in the late 50 or early 60s. Have we 'educated' a bunch of morons in the US? It's like watching 'Gettysburg' and say it was set in the late 1700s and not sure who was President during that battle but the movie was good. Geez...
1. Said she 'thought' is was about the nuclear bomb.
2. Said it was set in the 'late 50s or early 60s'.
3. Couldn't remember the President who was obviously in the movie.
4. Said she really liked the movie.
I haven't seen the movie but someone with even a hint of historical knowledge should know that the a-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. Or, barring that, during World War II. Which means that it was developed under Roosevelt (FDR) and dropped under Truman. I told my stylist and she laughed her butt off. I mean, how could you watch Oppenheimer and not pick up on any of those very basic historical facts? I mean, I'm assuming they talked about being in the midst of WWII sometime in the movie, which as I recall, was NOT in the late 50 or early 60s. Have we 'educated' a bunch of morons in the US? It's like watching 'Gettysburg' and say it was set in the late 1700s and not sure who was President during that battle but the movie was good. Geez...