Continuing with Ineffable Husbands films, I’ve watched “Einstein and Eddington”. Now I have to clarify – firstly, I haven’t heard Eddington’s name anywhere aside from Star Trek (there was a ship named after him); secondly, I’m bad at physics – my physics teacher at school was a poet and some of his verses I remember better than relativity theory, I roughly understand it – and the experiment was pretty much explained here, I’ve revised the formulas for the exam this year (yes, I study for a programmer, but we still have physics even though we don’t need it at all) but I was very happy to forget them. What I wanted to say – if there are any historical or physical mistakes – I was unable to spot them and I’m not going to judge the movie based on the accuracy. The film shows Eddington in Cambridge and Einstein in Berlin during World War II. They both overcome all the political and economic obstacles in the name of science and truth. They haven’t even corresponded directly – they’ve published articles and responded. They’ve also shown some moments of personal life about Eddington’s friend, (Spoilers!) who died in the War and about Einstein’s wife (who tried to understand his work) and lover (who in her turn, didn’t understand physics at all and their common point was music). Of course, there’s a happy ending, because we all know that the theory of relativity and the “new gravity” was proven. P.S. That’s Andy Serkis? I didn’t recognize him! (He played Einstein.) The moustache changed him so much. P.P.S. David Tenant’s smile is just perfect.
