Infinity
by Matthew Broderick
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Actor: David Drew Gallagher, Jeffrey Force, Matthew Broderick, Patricia Arquette, Peter RiegertDirector: Matthew Broderick
Brand: First Look Pictures
Writer: Patricia Broderick
Writer: Ralph Leighton
Writer: Richard Feynman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: First Look Pictures
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DVD Review: Your context determines how you will appreciate this film
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a difficult review for me to write. I purchased this film a few years after seeing the film, because I'm trying to compare 3 different media on the same story (author audio which later became text, same text read orally by a professional reader, and the interpretation of the film makers (the Brodericks)).
I count myself incredibly fortunate to have been in the audience for a class to hear to Richard Feynman reminisce about his war time experience at Los Alamos. Whereas our professor, Larry Badash (with 2 other editors) published a bookReminiscences of Los Alamos 1943-1945 (Studies in the History of Modern Science), the reissue of Surely Your Joking in the form of Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character (with New Live CD) can't be over looked. You get to hear Feynman's New York cabbie voice (as others have described it). Buy this book with the CD.
I only recently found the audio version of Surely Your Joking which includes material before Los Alamos which was taken from a Chris Sykes documentary interview (this forms the basis for scenes on inertia and lack of meaning about words (birds) in the film. Sykes's own biography based on getting to know Feynman late in his life pointed out early that some reviewers of old Feynman videos thought Feynman sounded less than a great teacher. In the end, the audio version reread "didn't do it" for me.
These lectures and recordings form the basis for the Infinity film.
Infinity attempts to cover a number of events in Feynman's early life revolving around this romance with his first wife Arline while culminating with both her loss and working on nuclear theory in the Manhattan Project on the first atomic bomb.
The Broderick's interpretation of Feynman's early life just didn't quite "do" that for me. They had a hard time trying to convey Feynman's enthusiasm and excitement and his personal romance. So much context gets left out (like why he has to brief the kids working for him <security normally forbid that>) that the film loses its effect.
Yes: perhaps it's me, that I have too much context, but that would go for anyone attempting to understand Feynman including the English critics mentioned by Sykes No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman. He's not for every one. I could have used a guy like him when I was much younger (he can be very inspiring to a certain kind of person).
My suggestion is to go the the real sources: the book with the CD and the books (Sure and What do you Care? authored by Feynman) first. Compare Feynman's own words and voice to the scene going out the Los Alamos gate and in via a hole in the fence three times. The filmed scene isn't quite as effective. Try a library and read his Red books (his physics text book in 3 volumes, much harder).
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