you guys ever noticed that there are actually two water-rippling sequence in oppenheimer?

should you rewatch the movie, you'd discover one other scene with the ripples on the finish of the film, when he talks with einstein. each scenes tells totally different tales:

1. the ripple sequence to start with tells how oppenheimer is curious and intrigued by "a unique universe"-a totally different perspective of the quantum world and the way he goes on, pushed by curiosity.

https://preview.redd.it/tr1h0e3k4e8e1.png?width=225&format=png&auto=webp&s=72854e44d7b8b98f9b4f7e0016b5aaa201c91c90

1. after the bombing, he turns into devastated by the impression his invention had on the world. so the 2nd sequence which comes on the finish depicts the catastrophic penalties of his personal creation, tells us how he imagines that he had achieved 'a series response' and he received 'blood on his palms'.

the ripples additionally evoke a way of common interconnectedness, echoing oppenheimer’s personal view of science, life, and morality. They counsel how small actions in a single area (e.g. theoretical physics) can have cosmic, even existential, penalties.

its so superior how nolan had this degree of creativity of exhibiting the identical scene having totally different interpretations in several timelines to the viewers