We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl that’s been crusted over by the steady gnawing of time.

We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.

But still only half-formed, it is off to a shaky start.

“As a reflection of Oppenheimer’s mind, the film cannot help but be morally half-formed.”

Historian Paul Ham is probably right that the film “cannot help but be morally half-formed,” and his excellent book, “Hiroshima Nagasaki,” is convincing in that the bombings were unnecessary to win the war, but no feature film is likely to capture the full impact of the bomb’s history and effects.