Oppenheimer is a film awash with quotes. Twice, Cillian Murphy as the titular physicist intones his famous “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” line from the Bhagavad Gita – once with horror when he sees what his atomic bomb can do during the Trinity test in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, and before that, 20 minutes in while he’s in bed with his lover Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) and she asks him to read from the original Sanskrit. Used in two different contexts, it carries weight both for his dreadful invention, and the threads of his personal life on which the movie pulls. Perhaps more presciently, it opens with a shortened version of the quote from Greek scholar Apollodorus: “Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. Fo...