The narrator assumed the Oppenheimer tempo changes were metric modulation — the clean, mathematical explanation any trained musician would reach for. They aren't. Real creative work consistently resists the elegant post-hoc explanations listeners bolt onto it after one hearing. Every time you confidently say 'I get how they did that,' you're usually describing a theory the creators never used. The truth tends to be messier, more labor-intensive, and more impressive than the elegant version your brain prefers.
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