Spike Lee says ‘Oppenheimer’ was ‘great.’ But he wishes it showed the Japanese victims
LA TimesSpike Lee shared his thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and its lack of Japanese representation. Spike Lee says he has love for “massive filmmaker” Christopher Nolan, even though he’d like to make one change to “Oppenheimer.” The “Do the Right Thing” and “She’s Gotta Have It” director reflected on the films that currently inspire him in a recent interview with the Washington Post. Speaking with the newspaper ahead of his Brooklyn Museum exhibit opening, Lee said Nolan’s sprawling biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer was a “great film.” Released in July, the three-hour “Oppenheimer” centers on the titular physicist as he creates the atomic bomb that brings World War II to an end. “But because viewers of course cannot be trusted to know any history or muster any empathy on their own — and if anything unites those who criticize ‘Oppenheimer’ on representational grounds, it’s their reflexive assumption of the audience’s stupidity — anything that isn’t explicitly shown onscreen is denigrated as a dodge or an oversight, rather than a carefully considered decision.” Lee said he would have preferred the film to end with the dropping of the bombs in Japan.
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