![]() Opening in 1913 with Ramanujan (Patel) struggling to find work in his native land, writer-director Matthew Brown drops audiences in a sea of mystery and, with the aid of choppy storytelling, refuses to throw them much in the form of life preservers.Īlready in a narrative funk as it establishes Ramanujan’s central obstacles, “The Man Who Knew Infinity” digs itself deeper with an unimaginative recurring theme of an overbearing Indian bamboo flute melody whenever in-country, as if the setting was somehow unclear. He was bedeviled by the deep-seated racism in England, where no one wanted to admit that a wog was as smart as, nay, smarter than they were. ![]() He was just in time for the outbreak of the Great War. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), who became his mentor. Over the past few years, crowd-pleasers like the “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” movies, “The Hundred-Foot Journey” and “The Lunchbox” have furthered westerners’ fascination with Indian culture.Ĭontrary to appearances, “The Man Who Knew Infinity” does not extend that tradition, even with the participation of “Marigold Hotel” mainstay Dev Patel and a handful of likable white Englishmen in a non-Indian yet still dreamy location.īased on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan and his contributions to mathematics, it's a purported feel-good movie that barely delivers on that promise. Unable to find intellectual equals in Madras, he traveled to Cambridge in 1914 to meet with G.H. Only tenured math professors will have any idea what the characters are trying to prove.Based on a real mathematician (played by Dev Patel), it's a feel-good movie that barely delivers.
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