Thursday 2 February 2017

The friendship of numbers

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

Directed by Matthew Brown this film based on real events stars Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise and Toby Jones. A young man from India with a brilliant mind for mathematics is invited to work at Trinity college in Cambridge.

Covering the points you would expect a film of this type to cover there is not a lot of surprise here and I suspect the film is not entirely historically accurate. While the film is enjoyable it is not very challenging and the part I would most like to have seen more of, our protagonists early education and discoveries, is sadly not really shown. There are some decent performances from the cast but nothing special.


3/5

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