The excellent biography on which the film is based, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin, goes into great detail about Oppenheimer’s regret over, and attempts to rein in, the monster he created. It is a devastating moment and is the emotive payload of the film, followed by a montage featuring rows of nuclear missiles, vapour trails of projectiles puncturing the sky, the planet being consumed by fire – and Oppenheimer’s stricken face. Einstein, played by Tom Conti, says: “What of it?” To which Oppenheimer replies: “I believe we did.” ![]() The film ends with a conversation between the godfather of the nuclear bomb and Albert Einstein in 1947, in which Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) reminds the German-born theoretical physicist that he had once approached him about fears that his project would “destroy the entire world”. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures ![]() A devastating moment … Tom Conti as Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer.
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