Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan)
can you infodump to me? (i love you) is this overwhelming? (i love you) is this the right texture? (i love you) is it ok to touch you? (i love you) do you want the subtitles on? (i love you) do you want to go somewhere less noisy? (i love you)
When you become 20 something, you have to forgive yourself or you will never grow up. You have to forgive yourself for everything and learn from it.
why do I feel like shit that she's no longer in my life but then I also felt like shit when she was in my life. maybe *my* life is just shit.
just chewed on my lip until it bled and my mom said it’s okay it will heal in a few days. painfully reminded the body really does just heal itself over and over again. theres somebody whos been trying to save me all along and its me
Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.
If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.
If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.
Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.
yes yes oppenheimer and all that, but if you've seen the movie and want more, or don't want to see the movie but are interested in the subject matter, I highly recommend copenhagen by michael frayn,* which is a short and deeply impactful play about a mysterious meeting between niels bohr and werner heisenberg in 1941.
the bbc made an incredible radio play out of it, which is free to listen to here.
it stars simon russell beale as niels bohr, benedict cumberbatch as werner heisenberg, and greta scacchi as margrethe bohr. I always yearned to see a staging of cophenhagen until I heard this adaptation, and now I'm not sure anything can top it.
(there is also a tv version of it somewhere on youtube with daniel craig, stephen rea, and francesca annis, which is good as well, but I prefer the radio play.)
*as a work of historical fiction, obviously, although there is a lot of research in it about both the history and the physics.
