15 Things You Somehow Missed In Oppenheimer

Though it doesn't come at the very end of the film, the climax is nevertheless the pivotal Trinity nuclear weapons test, where Oppenheimer and company witness the successful, ultimately world-changing culmination of their tireless work in the New Mexico desert.

It's a spectacular sequence, and one which Nolan achieved primarily practically in-camera, though certainly not without some editing chicanery.

Case in point, just after Oppenheimer removes his goggles to get a look at the fiery mushroom cloud post-explosion, look closely and you can see that the shot of the fire has actually been reversed.

Rather than the fire pluming into the sky, it can be briefly seen pulling downwards to the ground, which defies the laws of physics and makes it clear we're watching rewound footage.

This isn't a mistake as such given that it was clearly done by Nolan with intention, though he perhaps hoped that audiences would be so rapt by the spectacle on display that they wouldn't notice the editing trickery.