Everything That Dies, Some Day Comes Back

I guess it's a measure of how much I enjoyed this epic that I was barely conscious of its length, and I even managed to watch it without a 'comfort break', which must mean something. Mind you, my heart did sink a tad during the rather clunky opening scenes which feature the usual tropes to signal we are in the presence of Genius.  But once the Manhattan Project starts to take off I was fully on board for the ride.  One of the reasons I was swept along was the combination of the time-hopping structure and the relentless pace.  Yet despite the pace, and the absence of quiet scenes, I didn't feel exhausted by the end.  Credit for this must go to Nolan, and to the score. I went into the film knowing very little about Oppenheimer the person, so I enjoyed finding out about his left-wing connections in his youth on the one hand, and his fall from grace in the 1950s on the other.  One thing I certainly didn't expect were the couple of erotic scenes, or moments, a first ...