The great director Christopher Nolan is fascinated by male heroic egos tortured by guilt: Robert Oppenheimer devised the atomic bomb and was wracked with guilt after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Odysseus devised the brilliant ruse of the Trojan horse, which led to the sack of Troy. He, too, was tortured by shame.
In this age of inadvisable hypermasculinity, it is good to see a brilliant filmmaker taking a more nuanced view.
Moreover, when I was in fifth grade, I had an incessant addiction to throwing spitballs at my classmates. I have felt guilty ever since. Perhaps I will be the subject of Nolan’s next movie. Or, well, maybe not.
This is not an exact transcript of the Perspective audio. Instead, it is the script Tom worked from.
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