Nathan
Ellis has difficulty connecting with other people and any changes in his life. His father was killed in a car accident
when he was nine years old and this has left a large gap in his life. His mother, Julie Ellis tries very hard
but she doesn’t understand the math that comes easy to him.
He is more comfortable with numbers and a teacher Mr. Humphreys agrees to take
Nathan on as a math pupil. Nathan
wins a place on the UK team to attend the International Mathematics
Olympiad. He goes with a group of sixteen
other math whizzes from England to Taipei for a summer camp. In Taipei, he will work with Chinese
math students so both groups can hone their skills. Only six students will be selected from each country to
attend the Olympiad so the stakes are high. Nathan has trouble interacting with the other students and
Taipei is sensory overload for his system.
When Nathan goes to
the summer camp, you really wonder how he is going to set aside his food
needing to be prime numbers and at certain meal times. He starts studying the language on the plane and he’s as good at this as he is at math.
Nathan finds it hard to believe that other students do not bully the
math teens in Taipei because they are ‘different?’ This film is an interesting study in material that has been
covered in other films about excelling in one field but dealing with problematic social
maturity issues. 3 ½* (I liked this
movie)
111
min, Drama directed by Morgan Matthews with Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally
Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang, Martin McCann, Jake Davies, Alex Lawther, Alexa
Davies, Orion Lee.
Note: Imdb 7.2 out of 10, 86% critic 80%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 1 ½*, Amazon 4.0* out of 5* with 39
reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in Sheffield, South
Yorkshire, England; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and Taiwan. This film is based on Daniel Lightwing
and his story as a mathematician.
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