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Her husband and Mrs. Seldom died in an auto accident some time ago. Seldom apparently rejected Mrs. Beth, Ms. Eagleton's daughter and caretaker. She inherits her mother's wealth. She is in love with Martin, throws herself at him, and he rejects her. She plays a cello and is clearly unbalanced, imagining a relationship with Martin that does not exist.
The guy who studies with Martin- He is also a bit crazy. He hates Seldom and claims his ideas have been stolen. For some reason his lips clearly don't match what he is saying most of the time. Nurse- She works in a hospital that Arthur Seldom goes to frequently to visit old sick colleagues. She throws herself at Martin and they become lovers.
Later we find out she was once Arthur Seldom's lover. She is familiar with his work and writes murder mysteries. Crazy guy- He believes Jesus came back to revenge his death. He is clearly unbalanced. His daughter is dying in the hospital in need of a lung transplant, but there are no matching donors.
He hangs out in the same hospital as the nurse and Seldom and buys books on Pythagorean society. All the characters are interconnected and it would easy to assign a motive to each one. There are very minor clues or hints as to what is happening, although nothing that would completely tip who the murderer is I will give you a clue that may help you try to figure out what is happening, one scene fuels the next one although it may not seem to. It is a butterfly effect, which is what the "genius" of this film is about or maybe it is about mathematicians should never write murder mysteries.
Nudity, sexual scenes, and language. While "The Oxford Murders" had an interesting plot, much of it's going to be nearly impossible for non-math geeks to follow. It centers on an Oxford professor John Hurt and one of his students Elijah Wood who try to solve a series of killings in the area. The method: using mathematical equations and trying to determine the concept of absolute truth. During the characters' discussions about reality, I interpreted it like what Stephen Colbert said: reality is a commodity, since it now changes second-by-second thanks to Wikipedia.
Like I said, the movie has an interesting plot, but a lot of it is really hard to understand. Worth seeing if you can figure it out. Whew, where is Inspector Morse when you need him? What a talkie! An Oxford student, newly arrived from America, discovers the murdered body of his old landlady and sets out to find the murderer under the guidance of a professor of logic who, in his elliptical pronouncements, sounds like Deep Throat.
Meanwhile, in the background, we hear a musical score that manifestly owes a great deal to Bernard Hermann.
There is an obvious suspect, the cultivated and beautiful daughter of the landlady, who has been taking care of sick and disabled Mom for too long and is slowly being driven mad by the old maid's persistence in living. The police, dumb and unimaginative, really like this blond dish for the perp, but they're bamboozled by the arrogant professor, John Hurt, who also played a genius of a professor and was my supporting player in the Art House Smash, "From The Hip.
Hurt dreams up the idea that the landlady's murder was only the first of a series that may or may not be predictable through logical and mathematical analysis. And, indeed, another two apparent murders follow. What -- you, the inquiring viewer ask -- is a "series" in this context? Well, I can give you a straight and unambiguous answer. I don't know. I acquired a nodding acquaintance with mathematical series in algebra and I had a course in the philosophy of science with Max Black but I'll be damned if I could decide what John Hurt was carrying on about.
Famous names, theories, and concepts and examples of same are flung about with abandon. Let's see. Offhand, I remember Godel, Wittgenstein, chaos theory, logical paradoxes, the uncertainty principle, Thuring I don't have an umlaut on my keyboard , Fibonacci numbers, and -- well, I can't remember. It was all too much. Two elements of the film I found truly disgusting. The first was that Elijah Wood should be a student at Oxford. Okay, he's smart. But so what? You're smart too, and I'm smart and where did I wind up?
A couple of second-rate colleges, that's where. No, I didn't like Elijah Wood at all. He probably had political influence and lots and lots of money.
I don't have any money. If I did, would I be living in this hovel? But I know a hawk from a handsaw. The second thing I found revolting is the sex scene between Wood and this gorgeous, bosomy young nurse who throws herself all over him after their second meeting.
They roll around in the bed, fall onto to the floor, rutting like two aardvarks in heat. I almost threw up. Why doesn't Wood have to suffer the way I did?
Oh, it's all so hilarious. Even that rhetorical question about Wood is a joke. The biggest joke of all is in the movie's last sentence, which reveals the guilt of, not just the murderer, but the person who planted the idea in the murderer's head with an offhand remark, which happened to carry a portent the speaker never meant. That's supposed to be an example of the butterfly that flaps its wings in Asia and causes a hurricane in the USA.
I have news for him. It's still flapping away. This murders series story full of turns and twists concerns about an US student named Martin Elijah Wood who goes to Oxford University for a doctoral thesis. There contacts a veteran professor named Seldom John Hurt and join forces to investigate a murders series.
Professor and pupil differ the points of view about numbers and on the influence of the treatise logical-philosophical by Wiggenstein , the greatest book of 20th century. The grisly killings are apparently linked to mysterious code , semiotics, and rare symbols. This mystery murder picture blends thriller , suspense, tension , plot-twists as well as an intriguing script delving on mathematics-philosophical theories. The film works on various levels and is constantly reconfigured , however contains some embarrassing and contriving moments and also certain confusion.
Poorly developing love story between Elijah Wood and Leonor Watling. Atmospheric cinematography by Kiko De La Rica with a good camera work. The motion picture is well directed by Alex De La Iglesia. This is without a doubt a mysterious and thought-provoking movie to be enjoyed for suspense and thrillers fans. Pretty decent movie, and it has some mathematics in it!
TxMike 29 October Can you believe, Elijah Wood is almost 30? Where did the time go? Still, in this movie he is being seduced by a couple of much older, but still beautiful, ladies. Elijah Wood is Martin, a USA graduate student at Oxford, hoping to get a certain professor to supervise his doctoral thesis work.
John Hurt is that that professor, Arthur Seldom. While they are carrying on in some good-natured verbal sparring, together they come upon a dead lady, the landlady where Martin is living. The dead lady's daughter, Julie Cox as Beth, a cellist, seems to have a wry smile on her face when she learns, during symphony rehearsal, that her mother is dead. Beth also has her eye on Martin. The final key character is pretty Leonor Watling as Lorna.
She works in a hospital and may have some connection to the killings, as we find out there are more. But she also has her eye on Martin, and he has a few other body parts on Lorna.
The presence of John Hurt and Elijah Wood as the squabbling professor-student tandem has generated sales in several territories, with more likely to follow. American grad student Martin Wood arrives in Oxford hoping that Seldom will oversee his thesis. But their first meeting is inauspicious: Martin is publicly humiliated for questioning the prof during a lecture.
Martin lodges with elderly, ailing Mrs. Following an impressively lengthy tracking shot — one of several look-at-me moments of high craft — Martin bumps into Seldom at the gate of Mrs. Several Philosophy debates between Seldom and Martin ensue, the latter claiming the killer will be found if they apply logic, Seldom believing otherwise. When it becomes clear Mrs.
Eagleton was going to die anyway, the notion of the perfect murder comes in: Perhaps the killer is trying to show Seldom that there is, after all, a predictable, underlying pattern to things.
The philosophical opponents work together as detectives, with the help of a bluff, mustachioed inspector Jim Carter , chucked in for comic relief. More murders follow, and the final payoff is well done in an Agatha Christie kind of way, if unoriginal.
Turing, Heisenberg and Godel are all name-checked to make the audience feel smart, and the pic smartly raises the question of whether its solution can actually be found. Hurt hams it up enjoyably as the imperious, arrogant but ultimately lonely prof. Like the aforementioned Prince of Darkness, it was interesting to have some quick repartee between Martin and Professor Seldom in regards to mathematics, philosophy and whatever other branch of the arts and sciences they could throw in. Elijah Wood and John Hurt are both excellent in their roles, as is the supporting cast.
The direction is very good and includes one heck of a tracking shot as it travels with four different characters through interiors and exteriors. It would be interesting to find out how many takes that one took. The score is appropriately restrained, no Psycho shrieks to be found here. The plot twists and turns respectably and I had no idea who the killer was. The scenery was, no real surprise, really gorgeous. I would recommend seeing this movie if you can rent it. The film refreshingly starts with a brief history of math and the philosophical stances of both characters on the subject.
Then the first murder occurs, with of course the use of a symbol that begs the assistance of Professor Seldom and Martin in the police case. One of their only deviations is the use of Bormat's Last Theorem instead of Fermat's Last Theorem but that is just to keep in line with its fictional characters.
There were perhaps a few too many twists but it was well enough written that most of them probably could have been predicted. It plays out exactly like an old-fashioned murder mystery and set in compelling Oxford University.
Like old-fashioned murder mysteries, there is no violence or gore but has a liberal use of profanity and sexual nudity but Wood and Leonor Watling are very attractive so that's not an issue. I enjoyed the use of math and logic in "The Oxford Murders" and will likely search out future films from the writers and director. Details Edit. Release date July 2, United States. Spain United Kingdom France. Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1h 48min. Dolby Digital. Related news. Oct 22 bloody-disgusting.
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