An ideal complement for those who saw “Oppenheimer”, the film portrays the famous scientist with a fictional outline but relying, almost always, on true phrases. Additionally, his own voice is used in two scenes
Did Albert Einstein really have two English girls as his bodyguards? It is known that he had two wives in as many marriages, and he has had a minimum of six lovers in his years of singleness, but about these girls, all day with him, shotgun at the ready, listening to him and taking care of his safety, just as we now see in the docudrama “Einstein and the bomb”Well, it may be simple artistic license to liven up the story, and it may also be true. In any case, it would be necessary to consult a recently published book, “Saving Einstein. When Norfolk Hid a Genius. The Double Life of Oliver Locker-Lampsonstill without edition in Spanish.
And it is that “Einstein and the bomb” released on Netflix, In its first part, it tells of the genius’s brief passage through a small corner of England where he hid from the Nazi persecution that had put a price on his head. His protector was retired Major Oliver Locker-Lampson.who, indeed, had a double life, first as a Nazi sympathizer, then as an enemy of Nazism and a firm ally of Winston Churchill. And not only did he protect Einstein, but also Sigmund Freud and many other lesser-known Jews, and the Ethiopian Haile Selassie, persecuted by Mussolini.
In that shelter is where he must have posed for the sculptor Jacob Epstein (the result was the famous bronze head) and where, with some reluctance, he agreed to give a warning speech against Nazism. The speech was at the Royal Albert Hall Theater, before 10,000 (ten thousand) people, such was the interest it aroused, and, this is interesting, The voice heard in that scene is that of Einstein himself..
We already said it, it is about a docudramawhere a group of actors stage historical events, alternating with abundant images from British, German and North American newsreels, all very well edited, with comings and goings in time and, this is also interesting, with carefully crafted dialogues using phrases that the famous physicist said, or wrote. Nothing is added or invented, and the texts are so rich that more than once it makes you want to rewind to chew them better.
The same thing happens in the second part, referring to his exile in the US, his famous letter to the president F. D. Rooseveltwhich he regretted so much, and his meeting with the incisive Japanese journalist Katsu Hara, from the magazine “Kaizo”, just ten years after Hiroshima. Again, it is Einstein’s authentic voice, which is heard in the final section.
A pity that the figure of the English philosopher is not added Bertrand Russellwho in the ’50s fought shoulder to shoulder with Einstein against the war use of nuclear energy. On the other hand, at a certain point a character briefly appears who would also deserve his own film, but not exactly because he is a good person: Paul Weylandanti-Semitic mythomaniac who in 1920 targeted Einstein and his Theory of Relativity, he later lived by defrauding half the world, that not even the Nazis wanted him, they even sent him to a concentration camp, from where he went straight to work with the Americans. In 1954 he returned to his old ways against Einstein, accusing him of being a communist before the FBI, in the midst of the witch hunt. Fortunately hoover He got bored of him and didn’t pay much attention to him.
“Einstein and the Bomb” (Einstein and the Bomb, GB, 2024); Dir.: A. Philipson; Int.: A. McArdle, A. Havill, L. Ashizawa. Netflix
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