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Fermat's Room is a welcome Spanish thriller that takes the tried and true Saw/Cube formula and adds some actual intrigue and a little bit of wit to the proceedings. With a slow and steady build to an ending that ties everything up in a rather satisfying way, you'll be asking yourself 'why can't most thrillers make this much sense?' Fermat's Room is not original but it puts an interesting and well-written spin on tired plot points and movie gimmicks. Directors Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena have a good sense of space and depth when it comes to shooting in the room itself and the tension and pacing will have you staring at the screen with anticipation.
Do yourself a favor and check out Fermat's Room; it just might cleanse your palette of all the junk films floating out there lately. I heard about this film ages ago in Empire Magazine in an article that was really talking it up in regards the use of mathematics as the base for the plot and how smart the film was, like the geek of the school was also the captain of the football team. It was a long time before I got to see it for myself but I was looking forward to it because the article had made me interested in it. In reality the film is not this math and theory heavy film that the magazine had suggested because, although it does use this as its base, it is quite superficially done.
This sounds like a criticism but it is not because the veneer of maths makes the film feel smarter and the novelty makes it feel more engaging and it works because it draws the viewer into the world without making one feel like an idiot for not being a genius mathematician. What it then builds on this is essentially a Saw movie but aimed at those who long ago gave up on that franchise for simply being one cruel gory sequence after another. The plot is engaging because it doesn't give you a gory release but rather keeps the pressure mounting in the same way as the moving walls keep the pressure mounting on the characters. Instead it gives you the overall mystery of why the characters are in the room and who put them in there but also keeps things pressurised by throwing puzzles at the characters as they move along. These puzzles do have an element of 'magazine puzzler' about them rather than being mathematical formulae but again this keeps the film accessible for the viewer.
OK the puzzles are maybe a bit in contrast with this bed of mathematics but the general tension of the film stops you picking holes in this regard. Meanwhile the walls keep closing and the characters are constantly reacting to the pressure, while the audience do the same. I'm not sure how many repeat viewings it would stand up to and, to be honest, I'm not totally sure that the whole plot would stand up in the cold light of day either but what it works the tension really well so that, on your fist viewing, it is a gripping and engaging affair. The director makes very good use of the room, always managing to make us feel like we are in there even as the room shrinks. There are also a couple of cool shots such as the couple of times the camera looks from directly above, pulling away to show things in a different way. The cast are a driving force within the film. OK perhaps their reactions are not always totally realistic within the context of the situation but they are almost always realistic by virtue of how well they deliver.
As the pressure mounts in the room they do a good job of showing it and they stay reasonably true to their characters. Are they Oscar-winning performances? Well, no, but they are very good at doing what the film demands and doing their bit to add to and increase the tension which is what hooks the viewer. Fermat's Room is not a brilliant film because it is not without its flaws but it covers them really well by delivering in the key area of tension. The concept is simple but effective and is built on by several layers of mystery and good performances; these suck the viewer in and prevent you picking too many holes while you are watching it.
Comparing it to the Saw franchise is perhaps not a fair comparison because the two are only similar in concept but it does make for an easy tag because Fermat's Room is a smarter and more enjoyable version of the Saw movies with real tension instead of just gore, it engages the audience rather than trying to gross them out and we care about the characters rather than just wishing to see how they are killed. It is perhaps not as smart as it would like to be but it is still an enjoyable and engaging film. I haven't seen a lot of Spanish movies. However, found this plot so intriguing that decided to give it a try.
The first 20 mins or so was decent in building the background story. And the opening scene sets the tone for a movie full of math riddles. Unfortunately it turned out to be a big disappointment after that. The riddles the 4 of them have to solve to stop the room from shrinking, are not math riddles at all. Those are the kind of riddles you probably did in your high school, certainly not the kind of riddles a 'math genius' would set for others.
Now about the characters - For couple of them, when they were telling their back story, you would have preferred some flashback scenes. Little bit of character building would have helped. Now for the big plot hole.Contains Spoiler. So if you have watched the movie, you know that one of the four actually set-up the room and he had a escape route planned. However, I still can't figure out at what point he was planning to escape. The other 3 would ave died only when the room would have crushed them and at that time this guy would have died too.
If he was planning to escape earlier, others would have escaped with him. So what was the point of this elaborate planning by supposedly a math genius? Another small plot hole, some of the answers to the riddles were descriptive and it would have been difficult for the program on the PDA to check the correctness of the answer.
For example, how would the program check the correctness of the answer if the reply was in full sentences or broken sentences with incorrect grammar. Except the first two riddles and the one towards the end, answers for all others would have been difficult to verify by an automated program.
Rating it 5 out of 10 for an interesting plot. Let me say in advance that, even it is a general audience movie it does the best with a bit of maths on the background, but still a very good movie indeed.
The strongest point are the top performances of Lluis Homar and Federico Luppi, finest actors very skilled in theaters and movies, supported by unexpectedly good beginners, Santi, Elena & Alejo, more trained in plain roles of teen comedies and late shows than in cinema, they do quite well and finally you understand why were they chosen for this film. The plot is atracting from the very beginning, the most of time it goes on real-time action, with a countdown that will kill many of them if several mind games are not achieved.
A new shape for a known theme, yes, but it works 100%. And now the maths class: Every character is playing a role of a great mathematic and both players and characters were selected to fit into that role: Hilbert is an old mathematic devoted to the riddles, Pascal an engineer thinking only on the commercial application of any idea, Fermat an enigmatic person showing no more that what you want to see and Galois a young genoius but not used to think on advance. The life of those people plays a little on the movie. So now you can see what a good selection of players for this roles. The mathematical riddles are explained easily and with no so much relationship with the main plot so they are not required to be understood to follow the film, but of course is a good point if you do it. And finally, the Fermat's Last Theorem: It is already demonstrated so don't expect any surprise on this movie.
But if you want, you can take a look to the Goldbach's Conjecture, maybe it helps. That's Goldbach's conjecture.And that's the starting point of this gripping suspenseful Spanish film.As Amenabar has already shown,Spain has become the land of the thriller in Europa. By fusing several elements,the director brings it all back home: the enigmas are borrowed from the 'saw' saga (but without any gore and with special effects kept to the minimum);the place reminds me of that of 'Cube';there are also elements taken from Christie's classic 'Ten little Indians' aka 'And then there were none' ' (guests invited in a remote place,the host is to kill us but actually he is one of us;and of course they have done something wrong before). Mathematics come to the fore,and you can write down the problems for you won't have plenty of time to solve them.Some of them are classics,as the young math genius points out: the three children and the story of the shepherd,the wolf,the sheep and the cabbage.All the actors are excellent,and the fact that Lluis Hornar resembles Laurence Olivier makes you sometimes think of 'sleuth'. The ending is borrowed from 'Le Theoreme du Perroquet' (by Daniel Guedj) another book which blends a detective story and the history of maths.In that book,they tried to prove a theorem which Andrew Wiles,an English mathematician finally proved in 1993.That was Fermat's conjecture. This is a thriller which is to be recommended. A group of mathematicians is invited to a mysterious meeting where they are to discuss high-level math with their secretive host.
The whole thing turns out to be a trap and now they are forced to solve riddles while brainstorming who's trying to kill them AND trying to find a way out. In short, it's a thinking man's Saw.
Instead of pain-tolerance and the will to survive, character's wits and cool heads are tested. Instead of horror and gratuitous gore, we have a much more coherent story and nicely-done tension building. Don't let the first half an hour fool you. The mystery is much deeper than at first seems and extremely well presented and paced. You won't be disappointed by the ending, as is often the case with movies such as this. The only problem for me were the characters. None of them was sympathetic enough for me to really connect with and root for.
I was more intrigued by the plot and puzzles, than worried about any of their fates. I suppose that's the price many mystery movies must pay to keep the audience guessing, but it does take its toll on the tension-filled-death-trap aspect of this one. Overall, this is an excellent film. High recommendation for fans of tense thrillers and closed room mysteries. And if you liked the storyline and tension in 'Saw', but averted your eyes during the torture scenes, this is an absolute must.
Unfortunately Fermat's Room adds nothing new to the idea of trapping a group of people in a single room and having them slowly piece together how they know one another. The general premise of course sounds interesting (at least to me) a shrinking room and four mathematicians must solve their way out. But the problem begins right there, they are only given one minute per question, which makes it damn near impossible for the audience to keep up. Not to mention when they begin to work out the problems on the chalkboard, the camera hardly ever puts it in frame, which would have been great for the audience to kind of sole the problem along with the characters.
But instead the movie shifts focus away from the riddles/enigmas and focuses on them trying to figure out who has put them there and why. This is where Fermat's Room becomes derivative and generic, this is very familiar territory for this type of movie and it is spun in an unengaging way. I personally would have enjoyed focuses more on the enigmas and trying to include the audience more (possibly by giving the characters more time to solve them).
And the unfortunate aspect of the movie is the Spanish subtitles, they were very fast moving which didn't help things (Just something that was unavoidable sadly). Like when the characters are dissecting the enigmas, the lines of dialogue moved too quickly to follow along with how they were solving the problem. But when all is said and done, Fermat's Room is an interesting, little thriller that has just enough distinction from other films in the genre to make it worth mentioning. Goldbach's conjecture, an enigma that puzzled great mathematician minds, is the basis of this tale about the solving of this old riddle. Four people are summoned to come to Fermat's home for a dinner. There are three men, and a woman who don't know one another, but they have, at one time or another, tried to make sense of the poser, that even greater minds throughout history have not been able to get it right.
The mysterious Fermat, an older gentleman, is an attentive host, but kind of aloof. After dinner Fermat and his guests, who are given names of famous mathematicians, Galois, Pascal, Hilbert and Oliva, go into a room where they are probably going to be given drinks. The host receives a cryptic phone call on his cell phone and excuses himself because he must go to the hospital where his daughter has been taken. The four math geniuses are left with another cell phone where they begin receiving PDA messages that asks them to solve different difficult math problems going from easy to more difficult ones. As a condition, if the solutions are not found in time, the room will begin shrinking. Revelations about the four participants begin to emerge and the claustrophobic atmosphere begins to take its toll on the four.
The menace of being crushed by the walls create tension among the four minds knowing full well they are doomed unless they find a solution that might be beyond themselves. Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena, wrote and directed this film that was a surprise when shown recently on cable. The realm of the work of Goldbach weighs heavily in the narrative. Little is known about the mysterious host, whose name is also that of one of the most distinguished minds in the world, Pierre De Fermat, appears to know the inner souls of the people he invited to play with their minds, or does he really? LLuis Homar, Alejo Sauras, Santi Millan and Elena Ballesteros make an interesting combination in this Spanish film that makes one wonder about what really is going on in it. Federico Luppi is only seen briefly, yet his presence is all over the place.
Four mathematician's are invited to a home, to discuss ideas. Once there they soon discover that it's a trap, where they have to solve problems, while the walls slowly close in on them. On paper, this film sounds like an intelligent version of Saw. And there are slight similarities, but it's a much cleverer film. The plot is well thought out, as it keeps you guessing on who is behind it all.
The film is very well acted by the cast, and the writers and directors Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Soperia keep the tension through out. The set design of the single room is impressive as the clever use of camera angles to add to the building tension as the room gets smaller. Despite being a film where they use a lot of problems so it relies on the brain more than brawn, the problems themselves aren't overly complicated, and are easy to understand. If there is a slight let-down, I thought the ending isn't as clever as the rest of the film, but despite this I really enjoyed the film and would recommend it. More a psychological thriller than a horror, Fermat's Room flatters to deceive you into believing it is something cleverer than it really is and, like all who attempt such a ploy, ends up falling flat on its face.
The far-fetched story has a group of four mathematicians – all strangers to one another – meeting at the invitation of the mysterious Fermat after each managing to crack a puzzle he has given them. They are guided to a deserted building in which there is only one room that has been furnished and decorated. Shortly, they are met by Fermat and enjoy a civilised meal before their host is suddenly called away to the hospital where his daughter lies in a coma. After he has left, the remaining boffins find the door to the room is locked, and soon discover that the walls of the room will slowly close in on them if they fail to solve within one minute a series of puzzles texted to them on the mobile left by Fermat. The film's opening credits show a miniature replica of the room in which the mathematicians are to be imprisoned being furnished by a gloved hand, so it's clear that some sinister force will manipulate what it considers to be 'little' people, and immediately movies like Cube and Saw spring to mind. Of these three films, Saw is arguably the most successful because it manages to maintain a level of believability (no matter how far-fetched its story might be) while Cube and Fermat's Room do not.
While this film is reasonably entertaining as you watch, and at time creates some moments of high tension, as the plot holes mount the slowness of the supposedly intelligent prisoners to find a way out of their cell starts to grate after a while. Surely one of them would have thought to knock on the walls in search of the giveaway hollow echo of a space beyond?
Perhaps the writers were relying on the fact that even highly intelligent people can overlook the obvious, but I suspect they came up with an intriguing idea – albeit one that wouldn't be out of place in a 1970s DC horror comic – and couldn't figure out a plausible resolution. And quite how all four walls and the roof of the room are supposed to close in at the same time is beyond me.
Maybe there's a mathematical formula for that sort of thing. Either way, the film becomes increasingly silly as the story unfolds, with a number of surprisingly mundane twists and red herrings arbitrarily thrown into the mix so that, by the time the end credits roll, the viewer is left feeling disappointed by it all. I watched Fermat's room mainly due to my math teacher's recommendation. Truthfully speaking, he has every reasons to be more apt as a math teach, not a film critic. There isn't much to say about the plot. An aged mathematician becomes indignant of the proof of Goldbach's conjecture by a younger one, rendering all his work then meaningless. The ensuing indignation fuels him to contrive a plan that would kill the young one with no trace left behind.
I don't have a strong liking for it, not a dislike. Some details are clever and are handled ingeniously, namely the logical order of events, the validity of math riddles, the intertwined stories of four participants that each one holds dearly to. Yet, little does it have an impression or impact on the audience. I heard about this film some time ago and was waiting for ages for it to be released. Whilst it probably wasn't worth such a wait, it's still an entertaining little puzzle movie. This is a genre that is plumbed relatively infrequently - The Last of Sheila springs to mind - but is often quite enjoyable.
'Fermat's Room' sets up an intriguing situation, gets a bit far-fetched to be sure, and shows signs of flagging inspiration when it dredges up the old 'one jailer always tells the truth, one always lies, you only have one question' chestnut, which was done in 'Doctor Who' in about 1976; but it doesn't outstay it's welcome and provides some tension and a few twists along the way. Probably more 7.5 than 8 out of 10 but hey. The last review (in chronological view, from Matthew B) has already said pretty much what I was going to. Suffice to say that this is a very generic and tame thriller - I doubt even maths buffs will get much out of it. The mysteries that are offered are revealed in a cheap copy of hitchcockian technique, and they were never interesting to begin with. No thrills or tense moments, either.it's all played far too safely. The actors are OK, if a little bland.
Camera work is too shaky, seems to be used just to conceal the lack of suspense.the whole package is uninspired. Two good scenes: a seatbelt moment with birdseye view of its consequences, and the final scene which scans the surroundings to make sure the world is as it was. But these aren't enough to recommend the film. With Hollywood and Bollywood movies being churned out daily, we seem to overlook the great achievements of other countries and their movies. Spain has a great pool of talented actors, directors and very unique stories that have now entered in the playing field as a vital contender.
Fermat's Room (English Title), should be watched and should not be turned away due to its complete Spanish dialect. It is a masterful piece of cinema that once started it very difficult to turn off. The concept is unique, and the script is engaging. I enjoy movies that allow the audience is guess and solve clues. This is a fantastic riddle of a film and I would say largely a thriller.
Put yourself out of your comfort zone and watch Fermats Room, have a new cinema experience. The movie is a bait and switch. Four brilliant people are drawn into a trap by a mystery murderer and they must think their way out. However, the premise is the only interesting thing about the film. The boy genius is a hot headed ass who is transparent from the very beginning, the woman is there for no clear reason, while another guy is the inventor of a duck shaped popcorn machine. Only one of them is actually a mathematician.
And the 'thinking' involves solving some trick questions that you either know from before or you have to use general school thinking to do it. The story is full of holes, the actors play badly, the tension is not really there and the ending, where duck-guy throws the demonstration of the Goldbach conjecture into the water, smartly observing that the world has not changed afterward (idiot! That is what was wrong!), annoyed the hell out of me. And I am not even a math guy. Bottom line: avoid this piece of pretentious trash. Prima facie, the premise of this Spanish thriller is very intriguing.
Four mathematicians, in a room that is gradually shrinking. This must be checked out, I said to myself. Now, after having spent close to 2.5 hours trying to finish an 85 minute long mental ordeal, I am mentally exhausted and can come up with only platitudes. Such as effing s.it. That's the quality of questions that are posed to these so called geniuses inside the room. I believe the members of this group would solve most of these puzzles in their sleep. What I found hilarious was that with their lives on line and the time running out, people keep wasting time by telling stories to each other.
The end and the 'reveal' are as terrible as the rest of the run time. Can be safely recommended to people you want to put off films, for years.
To be honest, I always trust Spanish thrillers, cause for me it's a different and exceptional approach to mystery, having seen other relative movies. I believe this one is one of the best films of the genre, and really enjoyable. As a matter of fact, it doesn't include any horror, however it creates panic to the viewer, who is watching the suspicions and thinking of the prime actors. And the entire plot is so interesting and mysterious simultaneously, as it is based on mathematics. The good point is that you cant really understand what has really happened until the end literally.
I think it's a very nice choice and I really recommend it! I don't watch many foreign films, but I really enjoyed this one. The premise is great. Puzzle films are a bit of a niche, but for those of us who love them, there is nothing better than a good one. The writing, acting and production are all great.
My only criticism is that at times your attention has to be split between the puzzles and the rest of the story. If there had been a timer for the puzzles and then maybe a 2 minute rest period when a puzzle had been solved, the plot and character development could have gone there.
Having to split focus probably lessened the impact of both the puzzles and larger story. If they had found a way to alternate (like I suggested) I think it would have been more effective. Also, at the very end a character throws away something very valuable, for no real reason.
This bothered me. Other than that, Fermat's Room is a great puzzle movie.