The Oxford Murders

2008
R
1h 48min

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John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Julie Cox, and Leonor Watling in The Oxford Murders (2008)

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

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En la Universidad de Oxford, un profesor y un estudiante de posgrado trabajan juntos para intentar detener una posible serie de asesinatos aparentemente vinculados por símbolos matemáticos.En la Universidad de Oxford, un profesor y un estudiante de posgrado trabajan juntos para intentar detener una posible serie de asesinatos aparentemente vinculados por símbolos matemáticos.En la Universidad de Oxford, un profesor y un estudiante de posgrado trabajan juntos para intentar detener una posible serie de asesinatos aparentemente vinculados por símbolos matemáticos.

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- 6 premios ganados y 5 nominaciones en total

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Trivia
The "Bormat's Last Theorem" that is solved in the movie, is a reference to Fermat's Last Theorem. Like Bormat's theorem in the movie, Fermat's theorem was widely considered to be (one of) the most difficult problems of the last three hundred years. It was solved fairly recently (in 1995 by Andrew Wiles). It was solved using elliptic curves, and the proof was first demonstrated at Cambridge. Like the proof of Bormat's theorem in the movie, the proving of Fermat's was a very big deal in the world of number theory.

Errores
(at around 14 mins) In the classroom scene, Martin announces that he believes in the number pi, and explains that by this he means the golden section, related to the Fibonacci sequence. The goof is that this number is universally referred to as phi, not pi, which is reserved for the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.

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Arthur Seldom: The only perfect crime that exists is not the one that remains unsolved, but the one which is solved with the wrong culprit

Créditos curiosos
The background to the credits sequence is a representation of a blackboard full of equations and mathematical formulae.

Conexiones
Referenced in Lobo Adolescente: The Tell (2011)

Bandas sonoras
The King of Denmark's Galiard
Written by John Dowland (uncredited)
Performed by The Forge Players featuring Freddie Wadling
Courtesy of Warner Music

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It mistakenly focuses on the poorly built love entanglements

This film is about a mathematics professor and a graduate student trying to solve murders that are connected by a mysterious code series.

"The Oxford Murders" spends too much time elaborating and dragging on the relationships between Martin, Arthur Seldom, Beth and Lorna. It gives me the impression that the filmmakers ran out of ideas on riddles and puzzles, hence made up a series of love and jealousy scenes to fill up the screen time. As a result, the first 70 minutes of the film mistakenly focuses on the poorly built love entanglements, which is rather plain and boring.

The next 20 minutes starts to be interesting as the riddle is full on, but it is too hard to follow. Only the ending twist captivated me, but that lasts for 5 minutes only.

If the riddles can be more evenly spaced and better presented, "The Oxford Murders" could have been a great mystery film. It could have been captivating as a simplified version of "Da Vinci Code", but unfortunately it failed.