Saw Fermat's Room. Infuriating movie. Four mathematicians are tortured by being forced to pretend they've never heard various classic puzzles ("A man with one boat! a fox! a chicken! and a bag of grain!") and then solving them in the most roundabout manner possible ("Okay, imagine you're the fox! This table is the boat!") If they don't work fast enough, the room they're inside of shrinks a little. They wisely spend much of the time bickering and losing the little PDA that they put answers into. They round out the movie by destroying the unpublished solution to the Goldbach conjecture. Woo! Take that, number theory!
There were some very striking scenes and nice twists, but I nerd-raged way too hard to enjoy.
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