This film is adapted from Robert Oppenheimer's biography Prometheus: The Victory and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer, written by Kay Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biographical Literature in 2005.
Because the film involves a large number of physical theories, physicists and historical backgrounds, some netizens said on social platforms that the threshold for watching movies in Oppenheimer is very high, and some people even "catch up" on history and physics knowledge one day in advance in order to understand the film.