just a note on the subtle line of MATH

Rating: 9/10 (26 January 2012)

Jeanne is math assistant to a Ebrew professor who says; "You have intuition, you will be a good mathematician". Notaire Maddad later will say: "Warlords have memory because revenge was added one after the other with arithmetic precision" Simon explains his astonishment with a enigmatic equation : 1+1=1 and Jeanne suddenly gets the truth, without even asking for confirmation. Great intuition indeed.
Maybe this was a tribute to the Arab culture, who brought us Mathematics, not only war an violence.
This movie is a masterpiece of balance, the only actual scene of violence is that in the bus, and the fire thereafter. The fire is in the title, and there are many purifying scenes in the water of swimming pools.