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The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies

The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies

What does it take to prove the impossible?Apr. 08, 2016108 Min.
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Watch: The Man Who Knew Infinity 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
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7.2/10 Votes: 57,925
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Reviews:

A limitless mind
Biopics have always interested me, regardless of whether liberties are taken with the facts (the case with quite a lot) many of them are very well made and fascinating while also featuring lead performances that do the subject in question justice. Srinivasa Ramanujan, his story and his ground-breaking contributions to mathematics also fascinate and worth telling and looking up, and it was great to have the opportunity to have them better known.

Another selling point for me was Jeremy Irons, have always loved him if again more for his early work up to ‘Lolita’. Although he is deservedly lauded by many, to me he is deserving of more credit, due to generally being restricted to (mostly) supporting roles in hit (this, ‘The Borgias’, ‘Margin Call’ and ‘Henry IV’ for examples) and miss (‘Assassins Creed’, ‘Batman v Superman’, ‘The Time Machine’, though he was among the better assets in all three, and especially ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ which is in every way indefensible) output since ‘Lolita’ that don’t show his full talent, even when in a vast majority of them he is one of the bright spots, that people sometimes forget how brilliant a lot of his early work is. This does sound irrelevant, but it isn’t really once saying what my thoughts on his performance here is and how it fares compared to his other work. Despite what ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ had going for it, part of me was not sure as to whether it would completely work for me, with Maths always having been one of my least favourite subjects in school. Never got my head around some of it and it didn’t engage me as much as Music, History, English, French and German did, while always appreciating its importance and why it is considered a compulsory subject in primary and secondary schools up to A-Levels.

On the most part, ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ was a winner and struck a chord with me. It is nowhere near close to flawless and it falls short of being a great film. It is though well-intended and earnest, that mostly compels and much of it well written and acted. Despite inaccuracies and what made Ramanujan’s work so ground-breaking not delved into enough it does try to treat this remarkable man and his story respectfully and does well in making Maths interesting and accessible. Very like ‘A Beautiful Mind’, ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ helped make me appreciate Maths much more.

Didn’t find the scenes in Madras/India depicting Ramanujan’s personal life anywhere near as interesting as the scenes in Cambridge and particularly the scenes between Ramanujan and Hardy, and to me they are the film’s biggest fault. They are nicely filmed and the scenery is beautiful and it did show his motivations which was great. Unfortunately, they are also far too slow-paced (which hurt especially the first twenty five or so minutes when we don’t see Hardy), mostly uneventful when the film is switching back and forth, contains very soapy writing, indifferent chemistry between Ramanujan and his wife and the acting has been described before as a mix of cold and exaggerated which sums it up very well.

There are moments of less than elegant camera work, indicating some inexperience, where some shots are disappointingly out of focus in a way that makes one slightly queasy. Can understand the criticism of ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ not doing much new for the biopic genre and playing it too conventionally and safely, with an outcome that is foreseeable and slightly on the pat side. And as said, it could have delved more into what made Ramanujan’s work so ground-breaking and focused less on his personal life.

However, ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ does have quite a lot working in its favour. The photography is not consistent but quite a lot of it is nicely done and complements the beautifully evocatively rendered Indian landscapes and the authentic 1914 Cambridge setting very well. Trinity College is shown in all its glory, in both the exteriors and interiors it looks wonderful. The music may not stick in the head but it serves its purpose well, it’s sympathetic, not too syrupy and it fits at least. Again, there is inconsistency in the direction, not always focused visually and very pedestrian in the scenes in Madras, but it helps make the story intriguing and accessible and is a triumph in the scenes between Ramanujan and Hardy (particularly in the latter stages), Hardy and Littlewood’s scenes are also well done.

Script is mostly intelligent and sincere, not being too wordy, too complicated, too treacly or overly simple. It is especially good in Hardy’s dialogue and speeches which are beautifully written (especially the “who are we to question the Ramanujan” one). Irons’ Shakespearean-like delivery in that wonderful unmistakable voice he has, that always makes things that are usually dull engaging, helps quite a bit. The story once it got going engaged, moved and inspired me, didn’t understand all the maths but it still intrigued and illuminated me and found myself really caring and identifying with Ramanujan, rooting for his overcoming significant adversity. The chemistry between Ramanujan and Hardy is complex, never biased, intriguing to watch develop and heartfelt, it is the heart of the film and the driving force of the drama and one of the film’s biggest strengths in that it rises the film above being completely routine. The characterisation of Hardy is similarly a triumph, a far more complex character that one seems to think when first introduced to him, the most developed (more so than Ramanujan himself and that is without seeing glimpses of his personal life really) and therefore the most interesting. Really appreciated how Ramanujan’s adversity is not done in a way that was overdone or pantomimic, some of it having genuine tension, and also showing the harships England were going through at the time.

Notwithstanding big reservations with how Ramanujan’s family were characterised here, the acting is very good. Dev Patel may not look like Ramanujan, too young, too tall and too handsome, and may seem a miscast physically, but is still great in interpretation due to exuding more emotion, charm and passion than seen before from him by me and made me care and root for such a remarkable man. To me, this is one of his better performances and he works incredibly well with Irons, the complexities of the relationship between the two portrayed with nuance and passion. Their scenes in the second half of the film are particularly beautifully done and the ending is initially inspiring and then very touching in Hardy’s tribute. Toby Jones is endearing as Littlewood and the British cast, including Anthony Calf and Jeremy Northam, are sterling and don’t overplay or phone in. The acting honours though belong to Irons, who is absolutely outstanding here as Hardy and gives one of his best performances in one of not many roles in recent years to fully show how great an actor he truly is (he actually shows it in a vast majority of his work, just that too many times he is well above what he is given). Because there is a lot of meat to Hardy and Irons wrings every ounce of juice out of it without ever overplaying, his eyes, gestures and face telling so much in a remarkably subtle way, yes there is much more to Irons’ appeal than his voice. It is an authoritative and sincere performance in a way that’s powerfully understated, full of gravitas and never less than compelling, he brings an edge to Hardy while expertly softening it when needed in the emotional latter stages when he becomes more sympathetic. The lack of big awards attention for his performance here is in my mind criminal and like ‘Dead Ringers’ (except not as bad) all over again in that it was a big inexplicable oversight that year.

Summarising, a well above average film though not flawless or great, though Trinity College, the chemistry between Patel and Irons and Irons’ performance are massive assets and help make it a much better film. 7/10

Review By: TheLittleSongbird
Wasted Opportunity. Simply Trite and Just Not Compelling.
In better hands – scripting, directing and casting of main character – this would have been a winner of a movie based on a real-to-life mathematical genius.

As it is, the whole thing is simply trite, contrived and a whole waste of a good opportunity. Right up front, the use of near standard English by the Indian cast who were supposed to be from the “abject poverty” of Madras is downright unbelievable and ridiculous.

The script doesn’t know what it wants to focus on – is it about an Indian displaced in England? Is it about the genius of the man? Is it about the tribulations of leaving your young wife and family to go abroad? Is it about another important leap of mankind in the area of mathematics? Is it about the relationship between a student and his mentor? It is all over the place and at the same time pointless and trite.

Jeremy Irons is superb and is the only key redeeming feature of the whole movie. Cinematography is colour-by-numbers, but good enough. Apart from the mundane meandering scripting, Dev Patel is a total miscast. He is simply a one-dimensional school play actor who simply does not at all have the talent to take on the range a proper lead sorely requires. He is just playing himself in all the movies he has done – same doe-eyed expression, same hesitating mannerisms, same scuttling around, same intonation, just same himself – he does not at all inhabit this very important lead character, and his amateurism is just a constant sore annoyance throughout the movie.

This movie is a dis-service to Srinivasa Ramanujan. It doesn’t give any insight into his genius nor a sense of his highly unique and compelling short life.

Watch it with little expectations, and it may be mildly entertaining, but never interesting, and certainly never compelling.

Review By: ken558

Other Information:

Original Title The Man Who Knew Infinity
Release Date 2016-04-08
Release Year 2015

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 48 min (108 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 11472454
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Biography, Drama
Director Matt Brown
Writer Matt Brown, Robert Kanigel
Actors Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair
Country United Kingdom, United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


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Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)

The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies
The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies
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The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies
The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies
The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies
The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016 123movies
Original title The Man Who Knew Infinity
TMDb Rating 7.18 1,225 votes

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