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Some women get turned on by hearing a man speak a beautiful foreign language. Oppie probably should have  quoted the Kama Sutra ( a Sanskrit text) in that particular situation though. [/quote]

That scene wasn't to turn a woman on. Sanskrit texts, particularly the Bhagvad Gita, were important parts of Oppenheimer's life and greatly influenced him. He read from the Bhagvad Gita and the Upanishads frequently. This is well known so the director had to address it somewhere in the film but it's awful the way he chose to throw that in so vulgarly. And you wouldn't know that was the reference either.

Hinduism is mocked and exoticized in Western media, has been since the early days of cinema. This scene has done nothing different in 2023.
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If I remember the scene correctly,  the couple where sitting and chatting naked when  Florence pughs character picks the book up, asks Oppenheimer if he can read the foreign language then asks him to read a passage to her while they have sex again. So the passage is read in the context of verbal foreplay. [/quote]

Sexualizing an 'exotic', 'ethnic' religion of the East. [/quote]

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