During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
Director:
Morten Tyldum
Writers:
Graham Moore, Andrew Hodges (book)
Stars:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Storyline
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Written by Studio Canal
User Reviews
Ticks all the boxes
I'll make my review short. Go see this. It has all the elements of a great movie from the acting to the score by Alexandre Desplat. Excellent script and delivery. It was well received at TIFF 14 where it was named People's Choice. The cast members really gelled on screen. It was well edited because the pace of the movie did not lag at any time. When watching this you will quickly realize that these actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Allen Leech) will be around for a long time entertaining us. If you like A Beautiful Mind or even Good Will Hunting, you will enjoy this. It comes out in November 2014. Don't miss it. This one is Oscar worthy.
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The story of the life and academic career of the
pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship
with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
Director:
Matt Brown (as Matthew Brown)
Writers:
Matt Brown (screenplay), Matt Brown
Stars:
Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair
Storyline
In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence
that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India cannot crush.
Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless
confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British
mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to further develop
his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. Forced to leave his
young wife, Janaki, behind, Ramanujan finds himself in a land where both
his largely intuitive mathematical theories and his cultural values run
headlong into both the stringent academic requirements of his school
and mentor and the prejudiced realities of a Britain heading into World
War One. Facing this with a family back home determined to keep him from
his wife and his own declining health, Ramanujan joins with Hardy in a
mutual struggle that would define Ramanujan as one of India's greatest
modern scholars who broke more than one barrier in his worlds.
User Reviews
Interesting but Slow
The problem with this
movie is that not a lot happens. And it's very slow. The maths is too
abstract for the average viewer to appreciate the ground breaking nature
of S. Ramanujan's work. The best thing about the movie is that it
brings to the modern audience an awareness of the genius of Ramanujan -
who was apparently every bit Einstein's equal or better, but remains
basically unknown outside of maths academia.
The movie struggles
because it can't build to any kind of dramatic "Eureka" moment, when
there's a sudden breakthrough that leads to some sort of climax that the
general audience knows about. The Imitation Game (2014) at least had a
sense of time running out with Alan Turing (and others) trying to find a
code to crack the Enigma Machine in WWII. This movie hasn't got that
sort of pressure and it doesn't build to any sort of major breakthrough.
It's just an interesting story about a maths genius of the 20th Century
who most people have never heard of.
The director has obviously
tried to build up the love story to give the audience something to
connect with, but unfortunately it is largely fictional. In real life,
21 year old Ramanujan married his young bride who was 9 or 10 at the
time. 5 years later he left her in India with family as he set off for
England and Cambridge. The interfering mother- in-law and the star
crossed lovers scenario in the movie seems to be pretty fictionalised in
an attempt to provide something a little less dry than maths equations.
Nevertheless, the movie is beautifully acted. It's just pretty slow.
