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Incendies 2010
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Jeanne Marwan is in a classroom. An unseen teacher talks about the math they’ve learned so far, preparing the students for a venture into the world of the unknown, pure mathematics. The camera doesn’t leave Jeanne, her grief and the voice are the only two things that matter. The teacher finishes, and calls Jeanne, who we now realize is her teaching assistant, up to the front to discuss the Collatz Conjecture, foreshadowing how things can come together. The Collatz Conjecture…
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