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You know I occasionally get a little bit obsessed about something and spend a lot of time researching it and learning about it and writing about it, before slowly losing interest and moving on to something else? (see Drumming, Magic, Harmonicas, Bible lore, etc etc)
That's been more under control since having this job, I think, because I'm so busy and just don't have the time to indulge my little idiosyncrasies so much. Especially when you factor in parenthood too!
But I may be about to disappear down a new rabbit hole of information and fact-finding...
I finally got to see the film "Oppenheimer" yesterday, on one of its last showings at our nearest (which isn't that near, really) cinemas. I really, really enjoyed it. I had my reservations because I do find Christopher Nolan's style of filmmaking a bit annoying. I'm sure I must have bored you with this before, but since 'Inception' - which was one of my favourite films of the early part of the 21st Century - I think he's just retread the same road with his visuals and soundtracks and I was finding it a bit tedious. So I was really pleasantly surprised by this! Yes, he did a lot of his usual directing trickery and same-old shots, but they really seemed to work. And yes, the film is far too long, and the constant jumping between timelines and viewpoints (another Nolan trope) gets a bit confusing and unnecessarily intrusive, but I still think it may be my favourite new film I've watched this year! (And don't get too carried away - I have seen a disappointingly low number of movies so far in '23).
Anyway, the point I was TRYING to get to, is that I had forgotten just how much I know about the Manhattan Project, and how fascinating the whole thing is. I remember seeing a TV movie - from the 80s I think - that basically told the same story. It was called "Shadow Makers" in the UK and starred Dwight Schultz from The A-Team as Oppenheimer, and Paul Newman as General Groves. I recorded it and watched it dozens of times. A young John Cusack was in there somewhere, too, I recall. I just loved it. But I was at school at the time and studying for exams and didn't really look into it as much as I would have liked to.
But now...
Oh, man, has my interest been stirred again! I've already found dozens of documentaries online, dating from the 1960s right up until this year. There are countless books, biographies and articles; there are audio dramas and playscripts; BBC Sounds has hours of old Radio 4 interviews and investigations; and it's hard to turn on the TV now without finding some old programme being played somewhere as a way for the channel to cash in on the current wave of interest from the movie. And I am right in there, surfing that wave with a smile on my face and an excited heartbeat.
I may not surface again until January!

RC 12-9-23