Jun 17 2008
The Oxford Murders
I watched The Oxford Murders last night and I liked it. It is a thriller movie adapted from the award-winning novel of Guillermo Martinez. It was pretty interesting and it kept me guessing until the end but the suspense is not keeping me on my toes. It’s like the movie lacked something. One thing is for sure, And I found it funny because they were mentioning a lot of Mathematical terminologies like the Fibonacci Sequence and it reminded me so much of my college days. Anyway, I’ve read a lot of negative reviews about this movie but for me it doesn’t hurt to watch it. It’s still worth it somehow, especially if you like detective like films.
Starring: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Plot:
November 1993. Wood plays Martin, an American student at the University of Oxford who wants Arthur Seldom (Hurt) as his thesis director. In a public lecture, Seldom quotes Wittgenstein’s Tractatus to deny the possibility of truth. Martin contests asserting his faith in the mathematics under reality. Later, Martin and Seldom coincide and find Martin’s landlady (also a friend of Seldom’s) murdered. Seldom declares to the police that he had received a note with his friend’s address marked as “the first of a series”. As Seldom is an authority on logical series, he suspects that a serial murderer is defying his intelligence. Martin, Seldom and Lorna (Leonor Watling), a Spanish nurse, will try to guess the following terms of the series as murders continue.
