Christopher Nolan is obsessed with consequences. If you look at his films, you’ll find not only more one-note dead wives than even he’d care to admit, but an assortment of male geniuses who are forced to reckon with the losses they bring upon themselves and those they love. That’s especially true of Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer, the real-life scientist at the center of Nolan’s new magnum opus.
