According to Christopher Nolan, the sex scenes are in Oppenheimer indispensable to tell the full story of American physicist Robert Oppenheimer. “The way he treats women, the charm he exuded: it’s essential to his story,” the director explains to Insider.
And so it happens that after 25 years in the business, Christopher directs his first sex scenes, ‘nervous’ and with ‘appropriate caution’. One of those sex scenes from the movie is now under fire.
It involves a sex scene between Cillian Murphy, who plays Robert Oppenheimer, and Florence Pugh, who plays communist Jean Tatlock. During a lovemaking Jean asks Robert if he wants to read from the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred scripture from Hinduism. Oppenheimer reads the sentence he thinks of when the first atomic boom goes off: “I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
That quote is quite off-putting to some followers of Hinduism. According to Variety the film is also a great success in India, but there are negative reports about the sex scene. Critics are scandalized that a text so important to Hindus is read during a sex scene.
An Indian government commissioner has now written an open letter to Christopher Nolan, requesting that the scene be removed from the film. He calls it a “devastating attack on Hinduism.” Under that call, which the man shares on Twitter, there are positive and negative sounds. Whether Christopher Nolan will respond to it remains to be seen.
2023-07-24 20:27:16
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