The Oxford Murders [Region Free] [Blu-ray]

Product Description

A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Blu-ray
• UPC: 777235014989
• Release Date: January 1
• Other Video Info: blu_ray
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A well-balanced mystery about unbalanced murder.

This is a great film to add to your mystery collection. It is up there with Christy and Sayers. All the elements are there and blend well. The actors are well chosen to match the characters, and the acting is bang on. The sets were perfect and not distracting from the story. There are several approaches one can take while telling a story. One is like Tony Hillerman, who usually has two parallel stories that have characters periodically crossing each other and may not converge in the end. The other is the worlds within worlds approach, as with the book "Sophie's World" or the film "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999). This story was a more standard mystery with the usual suspects that all could be guilty. All the clues are there, and the butler does not come out of the closet just before the end. Yet in the end, we get not one twist but a series of plausible twists. Leave it to a Mathematician. In the film, we get a statement, "I believe in Pi." This gives away the amateurs in the math section of the film, as everyone in the industry knows that ¼ Pi (~.7854816) is the formula to convert from one geometric figure to another. Look it up. You do not need a calculator if you remember 7854 in your head. The story starts with a famous woman being murdered; no doubt about it, two people find the body, and a mysterious mathematical clue points to possible future murders. Can the clues be deciphered using a mathematical attitude and future murders prevented, or will we have to rely on good old-fashioned detective skills? Be sure to watch again to see what clues you may have missed.