Plot & Summary
“Do you know what prime numbers are?” a voice asks during Fermat’s Room’s opening moments. “If not, you can just leave now.” Luckily, you don’t need to know much about maths to understand this claustrophobic thriller. Its subject matter is abstract equations, but what you’ll be left with as the credits roll is clammy palms and an adrenaline comedown, rather than a school lesson buzzing in your head.The voice belongs to Alejo Sauras, playing a floppy haired, blue-eyed cutie, who just happens to be one of the world’s leading mathematicians. He’s working on a proof of Goldbach’s Conjecture, the theory that every even number is the sum of two primes. But then his laptop gets destroyed, a mysterious invitation to a meeting of mathematical minds arrives at his door, and before you can say Cube, he’s stuck in a room that’s shrinking by the second with three other eggheads. To slow the mechanism threatening to crush them, the team must solve a series of puzzles, but each is hiding secrets that may explain what got them into this mess in the first place.
First-time writer/director team Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña know how to hike up the suspense, and their script throws out enough red herrings that smart-arses who like to claim they saw it all coming should be kept quiet. The tension steadily grows as the room gets cosier; shots of sliding walls, splintering furniture and exploding lightbulbs are interleaved with a geometrically pleasing bird’s eye view of the dwindling space.
Rating
6.7/10; 2,056 votesDownload movie with subtitles
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