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The most unrealistic part of the movie was


The fact that a female scientist invented a mathematical algorithm that inverted time.

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I’m assuming this is just a shitpost?

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Why? The amount of female theoretical mathematicians is close to 0%. It's a completely male-dominated field. And it's always been that way, and still is to this day, and it won't change in the future. This whole "female Oppenheimer" gimmick is just Nolan trying to be feminist friendly. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.

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Does anyone legitimately care about a female mathematician in a sci-fi action movie?

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Not really, but it came across so very "tryhard" by Nolan to be feminist-friendly. It was really pathetic. It took the whole movie to a new low.

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Does the movie call attention to her being female?

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Yes, the very fact that they mentioned that it was a "she" was calling attention to her being female. Instead of just saying "the scientist". Oh. and lets not forget that the most powerful person in the indian arms-dealing world was an old woman. Very realistic right.

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Wait, are you saying the movie referring to her by female pronouns is calling attention to it? I haven’t seen the movie, so I genuinely don’t know what you’re talking about.

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What a moron you are. You haven't watched the movie and here you are arguing the facts of the movie. Idiot.

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I’m not arguing the facts of the movie. I’m asking you a genuine question.

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Incredible... These people aren't interested in facts or even context/nuance... Just ideology... The guy didn't even watch the movie... lol

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Brilliant female mathematicians are rare, but they DO exist!
https://www.famousmathematicians.net/famous-female-mathematicians/

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That's true. It was a break of immersion moment.

Females are not good in mathematics and algorithms. I can believe a female becoming a pro in the field, the same I can believe a female becoming a chess master, but being the top one as this suggests? That's unrealistic. When they said "she", that was a "WTF?" moment.

You check the top 100 chess players in the last century, at their peak, and you only have one woman in the whole list, at 58th.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120309155451/http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PeakList.asp?Params=199510SSSSS1S000000000000111000000000000010100

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Yes, completely agree. Chess is a very good example.

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Who cares.

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Looks like it pissed you off. Job well done by Nolan.

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Well played OP, well played...

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