It did seem to move a bit too slowly and didn't really engage my emotions until the end, as some critics have said, but overall I thought it was a well done biopic with great performances by everyone. The other Jeremy was excellent, I thought. I was continually irritated with his GH Hardy for the way he was treating Ramanujan, as our "Bertie" Russell told him.
I saw the film in a lovely old theater that has been renovated for comfort but has kept its charm. There were only a handful of people in the audience, so it was nice and quiet.
JN in a hat, with a mustache, and smoking a pipe? Yes, please! It's a good thing I was sitting down! His performance made me wish for a biopic about Bertrand Russell himself (with our guy starring of course). What I've read about him makes me think he had quite a fascinating life, and Jeremy would be perfect to play him, at least in his later years.
One last thing: when the movie was over, I left the theater and was waiting at a cross walk for the traffic light to change. It was a very long light, and there were 2 women standing next to me. As we were waiting, one said, "I really liked Bertrand Russell in the movie. I don't know much about him." The other woman replied, "I don't either really. He was a mathematician and philosopher." The first woman then said, "I'll have to read up on him." It was all I could do not to laugh out loud and say, "Jeremy Northam, "The Intellectualizer," strikes again!" I couldn't help smiling, though. They must have thought I was a bit loony, standing there waiting to cross the street and grinning at nothing.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
-- C.S. Lewis
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