the man who knew infinity movie release date

This is not a bad movie by any means, but its rather forgettable, even though the story is incredible. Ultimately, you could say the film is bigger than the sum of its parts. The Man Who Knew Infinity is a decent film that is well made and well acted by Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons, however the usual and predictable biopic tropes are out in full force, never allowing the film to stand on its own two legs. Well, as anyone who has sat down with a set of seemily incomprehensible numbers and watched them fall into place will know, it is not unlike a spiritual feeling. As Hardy says, “We are merely explorers of infinity, in the pursuit of perfection.” Not unlike the pursuit of god. There is not a mocking comment, even in passing, as the film shows how the faiths that the two hold dear bear upon their work. It also dwells nicely on the fact of Ramanujan’s mathematical genius springing from his extreme religiosity, as Hardy holds tightly his atheist beliefs. The film is also acutely aware of how difficult it was for two men so disparate, and not just due to their different backgrounds, to come close.

Ramanujan can’t ask for friendship, Hardy can’t provide any, and yet one feels the warmth of their growing proximity as the story progresses. Patel as the unsure, hesitant, shy, scared, and very, very young Ramanujan takes clues from Irons’s marvellous detached, tired, ageing, set-in-ways mathematician G H Hardy, to portray the unlikely partnership that led to mathematical breakthroughs. However, sometimes you want a film to do just that - not dazzle us with, say, a 22.

The man who knew infinity movie release date