![]() The result is the communication between The Englishman and the Swiss scientist, both of whom shrug off their nationalities in lieu of scientific truth. Eddington is captivated by the scientific contradictions of the Planet Mercury and Newtons calculations of its orbit. Einstein is seen searching for answers to his theories concerning gravitational phenomenon and it's relationship to light. This film captures both the social and a bit of their personal lives before they became known to the world. The first is Arthur Eddington (David Tennant) the British Mathematician and astrophysicist and German scientist Albert Einstein (Andy Serkis, superb characterization). The story itself centers on two men of Genius who lived at the beginning of the Tweneith century. Case in point, this film called " Einstein and Eddington " is only now surfacing to the American public and according to this reviewer, has done a masterful job. Try as they may, secret human peculiarities which are more readily acceptable or at least tolerated in our present age, are seen as huge obstacles in years past. ![]() There are not too many films which accurately depict the personal lives of historical figures.
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