Patel is a difficult actor to have complete faith in, and he does way too much clenching of his jaw in suppressed indignation, welling eyes darting left and right as he absorbs the latest blow. Every 10 minutes or so, another supporting player gets wheeled on to dent his confidence with ethnic slurs or scoff at the very idea of his so-called brilliance. Hardy, a confirmed bachelor, even went so far as to call their collaboration “the one romantic incident in my life”.īrown’s script, itching for conflict, plays up the institutional racism of other Trinity College fellows unwilling to credit the originality of Ramanujan’s proofs, and generally raining on his parade. In time, the working relationship between Hardy and Ramanujan, which gives first-time writer-director Matthew Brown his dramatic core, became hugely important to both of them. Self-taught but unemployed and virtually living rough in Madras, he reached out, via India-based civil engineer Sir Francis Spring (a dry then welcoming three-minute cameo from Stephen Fry) to Cambridge theorist GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), who initially suspected a prank: who was this no-name Indian who claimed he could “give meaning to negative values of the gamma function”, anyway? Knuckling down to a considerably more rigorous intellectual challenge than he faced in Slumdog Millionaire, Patel plays the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose research in the field of number theory took English academe by storm around the time of the First World War. The Man Who Knew Infinity is practically the same formula scribbled on a blackboard, a true story brimming with noble intentions to the point where you feel guilty resisting it. It’s not the most immediately enticing hook for a prestige drama, whether or not The Imitation Game has managed to pique anyone’s interest in tweedy wartime biopics about troubled maths geniuses. While I liked Germany's entry I'M YOUR MAN it really is not awards material.Dev Patel, solving equations. *Ashamed to say I haven't seen any but from what I've seen PARALLEL MOTHERS and DRIVE MY CAR, especially the latter are the ones who have the best chance at winning Best Foreign Language. "Be Alive" is certainly stirring at the end of KING RICHARD, but I didn't love any of these especially Van Morrison's song (or any of the numerous songs of his they used in BELFAST).Surprised Bono was locked out because while "Your Song Saved My Life" wasn't great he's Bono! I thought it was a sure thing. No Time to Die - No Time to Die (Billie Eilish) Here I Am (Singing My Way Home) - Respect (Jennifer Hudson) As a Radiohead fan I'm always going with Jonny Greenwood though his score for SPENCER was better than TPOTD and Licorice Pizza.ĭos Orugitas - Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda) Desplate and Zimmer offers more of the same. *Haven't seen Parallel Mothers or Encanto. Stewart cannot shed her acting ticks to fully become Lady Di. Chastain has heart in TEOTF but it came off as a caricature. HOG is her film, she's really entertaining. I really have to go with Gaga for this one. *Haven't seen BEING THE RICARDOS or THE LOST DAUGHTER. It was a true homage and gorgeous to look at.īest Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama *I haven't seen THE LOST DAUGHTER, but while Villeneuve did a wonderful job with the size and scale of DUNE, I think overall Spielberg nailed it WSS. It's DLU for me, very funny screenplay and relevant. You anticipate that any second, something will go wrong. They feel bittersweet, as director John Hillcoat puts you in such a state of mind that you almost unable to appreciate them. These happy moments are few and far between. The dread is punctuated by moments of joy between the father and his son. Needless to say, this is one of those movies that threatens to plunge you in a deep depression if you catch it on the wrong day. If the father and son encounter cannibals, their plan is to off themselves before they can get a hold of them. The color scheme is extremely desaturated, making the world seem overwhelmingly bleak - as if all hope has been drained from the world. Everything is gray and covered in snow or dust. Abandoned, ruined human establishments where cities used to stand. You don’t understand how frightening this world is. You can't watch this film without wondering what you would do in this situation. There were times where I was filled with terror so deep it started playing with my mind.
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