With archaic symbols, sinister cloaked figures, philosophical asides and murder, The Oxford Murders is a blend of maths and murder! Martin (Elijah Wood), a young American maths whiz who arrives in Oxford for a research posting, eager for the brilliant but taciturn logician Professor Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) to supervise his work but the initial encounter leaves him publicly humiliated and ready to quit.
Both stumble across the body of Martins murdered landlady, a note and mathematical symbol left by the killer suggest this murder is the first in a series. The duo quickly realise the killer can only be thwarted if they can crack the next symbol in the sequence. Seldom lectures Martin and the audience on the basics of logical series, Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle and Godels Incompleteness theorem. Lurking in the background is the murderer and, more worrying for the less mathematically inclined viewer, Wittgensteins Finite Rule Paradox!
The Oxford Murders was a great movie, in the vein of Inspector Morse, or Sherlock Holmes at his best! I was glued to the screen and the hour and 45 minutes and it passed like the beating Butterfly Wings! Stunning!
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