'Could “Oppenheimer,” a three-hour-long film, not have dedicated a few minutes to giving its female figures—played by the likes of Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh—even a minimal level of believability?' wonders one Vogue writer.
as his former lover, the psychiatrist Jean Tatlock—it was certainly heartening. The spotlight would, naturally, remain on the titular theoretical physicist as he grappled with the legacy of his era-defining creation, alongside a bevy of scientists, generals and political operatives embodied by the likes of Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, and Gary Oldman.
Sadly, they’re not given quite enough room to do this—relegated to the peripheries in every sense. Firstly, there’s Blunt’s Kitty, who, when she’s seen on screen for the first time, is literally nothing more than an impeccably dressed, red-lipsticked blur that lurks in the corner over the shoulder of Murphy’s Oppenheimer as he’s grilled during his 1954 security hearing.
Later, when the family relocate to Los Alamos once Oppenheimer is appointed director of the Manhattan Project, she is visibly more stable and supportive , acting as his sounding board as he ponders the ethics of what he’s about to do. She’s even shown tolerating his affair with Pugh’s Tatlock—most viscerally in a surreal and queasy scene, during the security hearing, when Oppenheimer imagines himself naked, with Tatlock’s nude body draped over him, as his wife watches on, disgusted.
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