
There are certain rules of storytelling on a screen. For example, the protagonist should have a goal. It is a very straight forward rule. One that all the Christopher Nolan films follow. The young man in Following? Has a goal. Leonard Shelby? Has a goal. So do Batman, Dom Cobb, Joseph Cooper and others. In fact, every protagonist in every character driven film of his has goals, except Oppenheimer. Here comes the twist. Oppenheimer doesn’t have one goal, but two. He spends first half of the film trying to make The Bomb and second half trying to stop it from …Read more »