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Irons makes it work, turning in a lived-in portrait of an educated man on an emotional learning curve, but Patel sticks to underdog shorthand and suffers for it. Movie Review The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016, Story, Trailers Times of India Movie The Man Who Knew Infinity Movie Review. During my years as a mathematician, not one film-maker has tried to teach me how to write better articles. Though Brown is on to something in dramatizing Ramanujan and Hardy as hot and cold opposites on a blind academic date, he settles too often for clichéd lines (“I was told you love numbers more than people”) and never gels the swirl of prejudice, war and brilliant minds into a charged whole the way “The Imitation Game” did depicting Alan Turing, another beleaguered brainiac.Įven more regrettable is that the poetry in the men’s line of study remains enigmatic as a manifest art, so the movie - perhaps fearful of boring audiences - substitutes actor-gestured intelligence for any attempt to illuminate the math. 7 thoughts on The Man Who Knew Infinity: what the film will teach you (and what it won’t) John Baez Jat 2:40 am. A new movie based on the life of famous Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan comes out today. When Trinity College shows interest, Ramanujan makes the journey, only to be met with skepticism and institutional prejudice outside the deep bond formed with the admiring, disciplined Hardy, who pushes for proofs that will show his inspirations to be merit worthy. Click on the Listen button above to hear this interview.

But the movie, a real-life “Good Will Hunting” of sorts, suffers from being nothing like the cultural outlier Ramanujan was: It’s one more respectable British biopic following a formula.Įarly scenes in Madras show the twentysomething wunderkind as a shipping clerk with a young wife (Devika Bhise), filling books and writing equations in chalk on temple floors but with nobody to impress. The latest cinematic treatment, writer-director Matthew Brown’s “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” is a reverent portrait starring ever-earnest Dev Patel as Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons as his supportive professor, G.H. Directed by Matt Brown, the film features a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Toby Jones and Stephen Fry. The story of self-taught mathematical wizard Srinavasa Ramanujan - who in 1913 traveled from colonial India to the halls of Cambridge in Britain, shattering stereotypes with his theoretical ingenuity before dying tragically young at 32 - has already inspired a number of books, plays and films. Database of movie trailers, clips and other videos for The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016).

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