Infinity
by Matthew Broderick
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Actor: David Drew Gallagher, Jeffrey Force, Matthew Broderick, Patricia Arquette, Peter RiegertDirector: Matthew Broderick
Producer: Matthew Broderick
Producer: Don Phillips
Producer: Joel Soisson
Producer: Michael Leahy
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
DVD Reviews of Infinity
DVD Review: Understanding Love
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read Feynman's book and the film parallels it extremely well. This is the best example of what real love and affection is all about, without being a wish-fulfilling chick flick.DVD Review: Dont waste your time...
Summary: 1 Stars
Poorly written and mediocre acting, a love story as another
reviewer pointed out; if you want to find out about Feynman,
start with Surely you're joking... and work you way to his
lectures on QED, social sciences, thinking, or if you are a
student of physics, his famous Physics trilogy. I am sure Dr
Feynman was never as boring as he is portrayed in this lousy
film.
DVD Review: Broderick Son-Mother Duo Combines To Make A Nice Film
Summary: 4 Stars
This was kind of a strange, low-key movie, one that isn't going to get a lot of attention, especially with today's audiences which demand anything but a slow-moving story. But, whatever your age or tastes or patience, if you want simply a nice movie, you have one here.
I enjoyed Matthew Broderick's narration. Broderick usually plays likable roles and is an underrated actor, I think. I've never seen him in a bad performance. Even though this story is an emotional one, I found little emotion in the film but that makes it intriguing in parts.
Sometime past the halfway mark, I asked myself, "What is the point of this story?" There is a point, and there is more than what meets the eye to this. Those who have seen this film know what I mean. I'm making vague statements, but I don't want to give away anything.
I enjoyed the 1940s look to this, appreciated Patricia Arquette's against-type role; appreciated the fact there were no villains in here and the profanity was low. As I said, it's a nice film and touching drama.
Broderick and his mother wrote, produced and directed this film.
DVD Review: Badly made movie. Buy only if you just want to watch something about Feynman.
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this movie thinking that it'd be fun to watch a movie about Richard Feynman since I had read some books by him and he was an amazing personality besides being a brilliant scientist.
This movie has been done very very badly. The direction is poor. When you watch a movie about a scientist as brilliant as Feynman, you expect his science and his passion for it to be an important part of it though not necessarily the main part of it (like in 'A Beautiful Mind'). This movie is more like a love-story that doesn't really give you anything out of it. It takes some episodes from Feynman's book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and puts them together very awkwardly in-between a love-story.
Matthew Broderick is too ordinary an actor to play Richard Feynman.
The movie doesn't flow smoothly. it doesn't take a grip. If you have read anything by Feynman, scientific or non-scientific, you will find this movie extremely superficial. The Feynman in the movie is too ordinary. So this movie ends up being 'A' love-story about a guy who just happens to be 'A' scientist. This is almost a Hollywood chick-flick about a scientist. Broderick should stick to things like Godzilla.
Feynman's life deserves a far better effort of documentation.
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
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).
Description of Infinity
Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 05/06/2008Actor Matthew Broderick (WarGames, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) offered up this, his 1996 directorial debut, as a whimsical romance and a tribute to an extraordinary scientist. Broderick plays the brilliant and eccentric Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman in a story based on his early life. The fun-loving Feynman and his young bride Arlene, played by Patricia Arquette (True Romance) enjoy their courtship and young married life in New York until Feynman is called away to New Mexico to participate in the Manhattan Project and the development of the hydrogen bomb. Their storybook romance is further complicated when Arlene discovers she is seriously ill, and Feynman must confront not only the morality of his participation in the development of the bomb but the nature of life and death and the love he has for his wife. A nice, small sweet romance that aims low but scores high, Infinity is a quirky but poignant love story and a fine directorial debut. --Robert Lane
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