The Oxford Murders (film)

The Oxford Murders is a 2008 SpaniardBritish film directed by lex de la Iglesia. This thriller film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Argentine mathematician and writer Guillermo Martnez. The film stars Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Spanish actress Leonor Watling and Julie Cox.

In a public lecture, Seldom quotes Wittgensteins Tractatus to deny the possibility of absolute truth. Hoping to impress his idol, Martin disputes this, asserting his faith in the absolute truth of mathematics I believe in the number pi. Seldom humiliates him, ridiculing his arguments and making him look foolish in front of the audience. Disillusioned, Martin decides to abandon his studies and goes to his office to collect his belongings. There, he encounters his officemate, a bitter mathematician Podorov Burn Gorman, who also failed to become a student of Seldoms.Martin then returns to his residence, where he finds Seldom arriving to visit Mrs. Eagleton. The two men enter the house together and find Martins landlady murdered. Seldom tells the police that he had received a note with his friends address marked as the first of a series. As Seldom is an authority on logical series, he argues that a serial killer is using murder as a way to challenge his intelligence. According to Seldom, The only perfect crime that exists is not the one that remains unsolved, but the one which is solved with the wrong culprit. ........

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